Michael O'Keefe is an author, poet and retired NYPD 1st grade detective living on Long Island, by way of New York City, where he was raised. He spent twenty-four years investigating homicides and other violent crime, where he encountered many of the characters inhabiting his fiction--on both sides of the law. He and his wife, Janet are 9/11 First responders. His primary business in the police department was murder, and business was good. Now he writes about them.
