Robert Mykle

BIO

I’m a Boston boy, born and bred in Beantown. As a child of the much maligned 60s, which I enjoyed very much thank-you, I played bass guitar and sang for a rock 'n' roll band while playing solo on the folk coffeehouse circuit.

After graduation from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, I headed for an extended tour of South America where I spelunked in Bolivia, fished in Patagonia, tromped through the jungles of the Amazon and Orinoco river basins and climbed the 18,000 foot Sierra Nevada de Cocuy in Colombia. During one of many jungle trips through the Amazon and Orinoco River basins, where I crossed paths with leftist guerrillas who, fortunately, were too preoccupied to bother with a lost gringo.

I still travel extensively and each year from running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain as well as continuing my ecological interest in the Sierra de la Macarena. I am a former president of the Florida Writers Association and continue to lead the local Palm Beach County writing group.

I currently live in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

"Palm Beach Confidential" weaves a complex, twisted plot that plays out in a thrilling roller coaster climax.

“Mr. Mykle has deftly slid Maxie Roberts as a hip and slightly subversive art dealer with a libido in overdrive into the Palm Beach sleuth niche vacated by Lawrence Sander’s private detective, Archy McNally. Mr. Mykle, is obvious no stranger to the ritzy and wealthy domain of Palm Beach as well as its guarded secrets and back alleys.”

Killer 'Cane: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928, my first non-fiction book, was the recipient of the Florida Historical Library Foundation, 2003 Carolynn Washbon Book Award and the Florida Writers' Association Royal Palm Literary Award for nonfiction, 2002.

My latest book in Spanish is "En busca de Cano Crystales."