Henry Kisor is the author of four previous Steve Martinez mysteries, Season s Revenge, A Venture into Murder, Cache of Corpses and Hang Fire. He and his wife Debby spend half the year in Evanston, Illinois, and the rest in a log cabin on Lake Superior in Ontonagon County, Michigan, the prototype of Porcupine County. He is also author of three nonfiction books, What s That Pig Outdoors: A Memoir of Deafness; Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across America, and Flight of the Gin Fizz: Midlife at 4,500 Feet. He retired in 2006 after 33 years as a book review editor for the old Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1981 he was a nominated finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism.
