Writer / Storyteller 
Recent news:
Michael has agreed to a two book deal with publisher St. Martin’s Press. His traditional mystery novels, featuring his detectives Mr. O’Nelligan and Lee Plunkett, will appear under the Minotaur/ Thomas Dunne imprint. The first, due out in mid-2013, is Summoning the Dead.
A new O’Nelligan and Plunkett short story, “O’Nelligan and the Lost Fates,” can be found in the March 2012 issue of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (out in December 2011.)
Michael’s bank heist story “Plain Vanilla” appears in the anthology Dead Calm: Best New England Crime Stories published by Level Best Books. http://levelbestbooks.com/
