Joseph McConnell

McConnell has written:

The Mac MacArthur series of Ann Arbor-centric crime novels:

01: Many Believable Lies

02: Clash by Night

03: The Least Weasel

04: A Lair for the Wolves

05: Driven by the Trades

And four novels, so far, set in the future in a new country: The Peninsular Republic

01: Dog Island

02: The Stars Came Otherwise

03: A Fortnight in April

04: Amid a Crowd of Stars

There are also two collections of short stories and poems, The Run of Myself and With His Ship Intact.

All books are available as Kindle books and as softcover print.

McConnell is in his seventies, retired from decades in technology. His parents were left-leaning intellectuals, living in a rural part of Michigan. His father was in the Art Department at Michigan State University. The resulting exposure to the arts, social consciousness, horses, pickup trucks, farming, academia, dogs, and motorcycles gave McConnell what he admits is a mixed bag of world views and tastes.

Today, he writes a series of moral tales, thinly disguised as crime novels. In the intervals of writing long fiction, he also produces short stories, poems, song lyrics, and – so far one – short play. Many of them are included in The Run of Myself and With His Ship Intact.

When he's not writing, he cooks; takes pictures of plants and animals; supports wildlife preservation and a kind of vindictive/progressive politics, and he reads history and biography. He lives in Ann Arbor with his wife and dog.