K. Patrick Malone, a native of the New Jersey shore, graduated Monmouth University with a B.A. in Psychology before attaining a J.D. from Capital University Law School. After years of practicing law and apartment life in New York City, he returned to a small farm cottage near the Jersey shore to tend his English style garden and write his first book, A Haunted Mind. Major Influences: The "Truth" of Emile Zola; The
"naughty" sexual vacancy of Jean Rhys & W. Somerset Maugham; The "thumping" heartbeat of fear of Poe; The pathos and humanity of Fanny Hurst and The "tough guy" voices of James M. more...