Richard J. Cass

Richard Cass is a native of Boston and a Mainer by choice. He holds an MA in Writing from the University of New Hampshire, where he studied with Thomas Williams and Joseph Monninger. He's also studied with Molly Gloss, Ursula LeGuin, and Ernest Hebert, none of whom should be held responsible.

Solo Act is the first novel in the Elder Darrow series, which Cass pitched as "an alcoholic walks into a dive bar, and decides to buy it." Solo Act was a Finalist for a Maine Literary Award in Crime Fiction in 2017. In Solo Time, the prequel to Solo Act, was published in September 2017. In Solo Time won the 2018 Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. The third book in the series, Burton's Solo, was published on November 1, 2018. The fourth book in the series, Last Call at the Esposito, was published in September, 2019. Sweetie Bogan's Sorrow, Book 5, was published on October 2, 2020.

Dick serves on the boards of Mystery Writers of America's Northeast chapter and the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. He lives, writes, gardens, cooks, and fishes in Cape Elizabeth, ME. See his web site at rjcassbooks.com.