Growing up in the Soviet era, in a family of space engineers, meant imagination was part of my everyday life, though not always in the way people might expect.

When I was 38, I had a sneeze that changed my life.

Secret societies, dimly-lit halls, teetering stacks of time-worn books and coffee-stained papers—dark academia has so many tangible elements, but the lifeblood pulsing through its veins is its undying pursuit of forbidden knowledge.

Six Mile Store started life a long time before I got around to actually writing it – over twenty years before, in fact, in a dusty little store sitting at a crossroads in rural Arkansas.

When Larry and Rosemary started writing together decades ago, they hadn’t even considered writing mysteries—until they vis­ited Rosemary’s father, Dr. Saul K. Pollack, a prominent psycho­analyst in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.