Lover of the Dark Side. Likes violence and crime--from afar. Way far.

3 police procedurals now, another one next year. To me that's a big achievement.

Canadian citizen, on a 42-year vacation in California.

Mar Preston
A mystery writer is a person with imagination who veers toward the dark side and relishes human behavior in all its complexities. One who can look straight at all the awful things people do to each other and make fiction of it. Maybe it’s a way of distancing, a way of gaining some control over life. Maybe that’s why I love to write.

Mar Preston
I'm working with my editor, Jodie Renner, on a fourth novel in my Dave Mason series set in Santa Monica. Mason is a homicide detective with the Santa Monica Police Department.