G.R. Miller is a published author and poet developing two different crime-novel series featuring 1950s private eye, Randal Murphy, and contemporary homicide detective, Ike Barney. A St. Louis area native, he also lived in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, where he began to write and worked as a Park Ranger with the National Park Service. Life experiences, plus a vivid imagination inspire the storylines and characters in his novels, poems, and short stories. He is a current member of Sisters in Crime, St. Louis chapter, and now resides near family in the Missouri Ozarks. For more, visit: grmillerauthor.com