About the author, C L Hutchins

Charles L. Hutchins—most people know him as Larry— grew up during the 1950s in small town Iowa—this mystery’s setting. Educator, photographer, and genealogist, he summers in the Colorado mountains and spends the remainder of the year in St. Louis, Missouri. A widower with two grown daughters, he has read mysteries since he was eleven.

He has a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in communications focusing on technical theatre, television and film production, as well as communications research. He worked in a research lab in San Francisco and later ran a research lab in Colorado. Inbetween he worked as an assistant director of a federal agency in Washington D.C.. His first job after he received his doctorate was at the University of Illinois, Chicago where he established the first work internship program in Chicago's TV stations for university students. He also worked for the Oregon State System of Higher Education.

Now retired, he's an amateur landscape photographer and shows his work at local arts shows in Colorado. Along the way he inherited his mother's interest in antiques and his father's passion for raising flowers. He still has time to run bingo games in the small community where he summers.

His obsession with genealogy has enable him to identify over 2500 direct great grandparents, some of whom settled in New England in the 1600s--one even came over on the Mayflower! He can also trace his heritage to many Europeans in the Middle Ages.

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