Mike Nettleton is a retired radio gypsy who spent 43 years behind the microphone in a variety of cities in the western U.S. He's written a hard-boiled detective novel, Shotgun Start, and co-authored a number of mysteries with his wife, Carolyn J. Rose, including The Big Grabowski and Sometimes a Great Commotion, set on the Oregon Coast. He lives in Vancouver, Washington, with his wife and two incorrigible dinky dogs. Carolyn J. Rose is the author of several novels, including Hemlock Lake, An Uncertain Refuge, A Place of Forgetting, No Substitute for Murder, and Through a Yellow Wood. By the Sea of Regret, the sequel to An Uncertain Refuge, will emerge in the late fall of 2012. She grew up in New York's Catskill Mountains, graduated from the University of Arizona, logged two years in Arkansas with Volunteers in Service to America, and spent 25 years as a television news researcher, writer, producer, and assignment editor around the West. She founded the Vancouver Writers' Mixers and is an active supporter of her local bookstore, Cover to Cover. Her interests are reading, gardening, and not cooking.