Frank L. Gertcher

I am a retired senior scientist and current storyteller. My publications include five books and a number of papers in scientific journals. I was born in Clinton in Vermillion County, Indiana, and I grew up on a farm in Sullivan County. My mother’s ancestors lived and died on the Indiana frontier. For many years, my father and I fished and trapped on the Wabash River for a major portion of our family income. As an adult, I traveled to and lived in many places around the world, but I am still a Hoosier at heart.

The settings for my latest novel, The Dark Cabin Murders, include small towns and the countryside near my old Indiana home. I know these places. Wind Grass Hill is a real place near the family farm. I have several more novels in various stages of completion. If the good Lord gives me a few more years, new Wind Grass Hill novels will soon appear on bookstore shelves. My wife Linda and I now live in a retirement community in Florida. We enjoy golf, fine dining and world travel.