Richard J. Cass

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Richard Cass is the author of the seven-book Elder Darrow jazz mystery series. The first book in the series won the 2018 Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. The fifth, Sweetie Bogan’s Sorrow, won the Nancy Pearl Librarian’s Prize for Genre Fiction. His Maine-based Ardmore Therberge thriller series launched with The Last Altruist, and he has also published a short story collection, Gleam of Bone.   Cass holds a graduate degree in writing from the University of New Hampshire, where he studied with Thomas Williams, Jr. and Joseph Monninger.  His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Playboy, Gray’s Sporting Journal, ZZYZVA, Tough, Shotgun Honey and Best Short Stores of the American West.  He is a regular contributor to the Maine Crime Writers blog.  He is a lecturer at OLLI, and he lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine with his wife Anne.