The author is a Professor at the University of California's Medical School at Davis, near Sacramento in Northern California.  Jerry, a two-time winner of The Indie Book of the Day Award, writes “tweener” mystery books (tough mystery stories that follow the cozy conventions of no graphic sex and no cussing), all published as e-books on Amazon Kindle, with seven also published as paperback versions.  The books are fast moving and entertain the reader.  All of the books in the series are set in locations the author has either lived in or visited, so the reader can feel like they are visiting real places, not just Googled locales.    Several of the books introduce the readers to South America, a region where the author has lived and worked that is a long way from home for most English speakers.  He and his wife Elaine lived previously in Salta, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay.  Jerry selects the most interesting locations he found for Roger and Suzanne to visit while solving miscellaneous murders.  Montevideo, Salta, Machu Picchu, Cuba, the Galapagos Islands, and Iguazu Falls are also characters in these books, and the novels portray these places as vivid and real.  Jerry and Elaine breed prize-winning German shorthaired pointer dogs; Elaine also provides technical advice for Jerry’s dog-related novels like The Deadly Dog Show, Hunter Down, Roger and the Cancelled Czech, and Abra Cadaver, as well as editing for all of the books.          

Two-time winner of The Indie Book of the Day Award

Honorary Professor, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay