Michael Putegnat

Michael Putegnat grew up on the border in far south Texas in the 1950's and 60's. He has long been a fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Patrick O'Brien, Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, and Agatha Christie. He particularly enjoys writing about ordinary people who do extraordinary things.

While it had been a life-long ambition, he wrote his first novel, LAGUNA, in 2005, and did not begin to write full time until 2016. He is interested in history and uses actual events as a setting for his stories. Readers recognize the Sherlock Holmes style of clues building to a climax, rich Dickensian characters, Austen's love of complications, and the surprise twist endings enjoyed by Christie fans.

He has chosen the novel as his preferred medium for his exploration of these themes, partly because it provides greater subtlety and texture to the complexity humans bring to everything they do. He writes in a cinematic style, where chapters are scenes, vivid and immersive. Readers most often call his novels "page turners" that one "can't put down."