Neil Chandler

Neil Chandler now lives in the Ozark Mountains and has been writing for the past twenty years. His latest book, The Remarkable Austin Lee (2017), begins in 1932 with a fourth-grader deemed slow by teachers and taunting classmates, and follows his reach for friends and a respected place in the society in which he lived. His writings include nearly 50 short stories and seven published books. The third edition of his first book, The Last Decade of Innocence, relates historic, nostalgic and humorous events while growing up in mid-western rural America in the 1940s. Also published in 2017, The Daggett Dramas, are wildly-humorous stories, with tongue firmly in cheek, that follow several family generations from 1800 to the present day. A collection of short stories, including The Day Tinker Johnson Died, was published in 2013. The first of a fiction "search" series, The Search for Avyce Buckman, was published in 2011 and follows a journalist searching for reasons behind a woman convicted in 1936 of murdering her third husband. Published in 2012, the second in this series, The Search for Feeney Williams, explores the world of money laundering and the Federal Witness Protection Program. The "search" trilogy is completed with the 2014 publication of The Search for Pugsley Tannon, and uses river barge towboat characters to discover and explore the consequences of a hidden secret. The books in this search series may be described as "cozy" mysteries--violent actions take place but not vividly described. The search series books are character driven.