After a long career in public finance, Mark took early retirement to pursue his dream of performing Barber's Adagio for Strings at Carnegie Hall. Mark soon realized that since he didn't play violin, indeed, had never taken a lesson, achieving this dream wasn't likely. Not one to be discouraged, Mark turned to his second dream, writing a novel, which was the first Logan Wells' mystery, The Sword of Tecumseh (pub. 2019). He recently finished a second book in the series: The Last Dunes Girl.Mark grew up in Valparaiso, Indiana and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he was a Dean's List student, and a member of the cross-country and track teams. (He set a couple of school records in track.) Mark now lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife Carol (yes, Carol Carroll) and dog Lucy. He still runs an occasional road race. Speaking of running and dreams denied and fulfilled, Mark recently won his age group in the Popcorn Panic Run, a popular 5-mile race held each September in Valparaiso.
