I am a debut suspense novelist and a member of the Board of Fellows at the Culinary Institute. After a thirty-year career in insurance, I turned to storytelling, drawing on my lifelong interests in gastronomy, psychology, and human behavior. My work with the Culinary Institute helped shape the novel’s culinary world, while my three children—a cybersecurity analyst, a Harvard PhD in philosophy, and a Culinary Institute–trained pastry chef—inspired elements of its technology, moral questions, and cuisine.

I am currently writing Ketut, the second thriller, in which Capri and fellow detective Laura Madison establish a private investigative firm and pursue a serial killer born into extreme wealth whose distorted moral philosophy was inspired by a Balinese monk. Ethan despises this killer, texting Capri often.

As a survivor of both cancer and a stroke, I bring a personal understanding of resilience and the fragility of life to my fiction. I live in Madison, Connecticut, with my wife, Laura.