Thank you for visiting my author website. I write the Port Stirling Mystery series featuring police chief Matt Horning. The series, now with eight installments, is set on the rugged and remote southern Oregon coast in a small town. 

Shallow Waters, book one in the series, was originally intended as a stand-alone story, but reader demand led to the second story, Midnight Beach, which was inspired by a real-life crime. Book 3, Code: Tsunami, imagines a big earthquake hitting the west coast, leaving a century-old murder mystery in its wake. The fourth book in the series, Dark Sand, features an international murder in the aftermath of the earthquake, and is a classic whodunit in the best British tradition.

Phantom Cove, Book 5, won Writer’s Digest best self-published book of 2024 in the Mystery/Thriller/Suspense category! Mourning Bay, Book 6, is an interesting study of a suicide that might be murder. Cold Rock Island, Book 7, takes reader to a mysterious Pacific Ocean island off the coast of Oregon. Book 8, Hunter’s Bog, published in January, 2025, involves Matt and Fern in a chilling crime that weaves between Port Stirling and Scotland. Book 9 pits the townspeople of Port Stirling against each other in a deadly fight against development in their beautiful coastal village. It will be published in late 2025.