Michael Wallace

MICHAEL WALLACE got hooked on mysteries when he read Agatha Christie's "Murder in Mesopotamia" at the age of 12. He has been fly fishing, with varying degrees of success, for 30 years. The two interests have come together in his first mystery novel, "The McHenry Inheritance."

In a two-decade journalism career, he was a reporter and editor of a daily newspaper in California. He now is a public relations and publications consultant in Santa Cruz County, CA. He speaks frequently to community groups on topics ranging from Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin to the Pulitzer Prize.

"The McHenry Inheritance" had its genesis in an unsettling experience while fishing in California's High Sierra.