William G. Tapply is a retired high school history teacher who now teaches writing at Emerson College, Clark University, and for The Writers Digest School. The author of eighteen Brady Coyne novels as well as five volumes on outdoor living and fishing, he is a contributing editor to Field and Stream magazine. He lives in Pepperell, Massachusetts.
Philip R. Craig grew up on a small cattle ranch southeast of Durango, Colorado. He earned his M.F.A. at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is a professor emeritus of literature at Wheelock College in Boston. He is the author of thirteen J. W. Jackson/Martha’s Vineyard mysteries. He and his wife live on Martha’s Vineyard.