Island Life

After stints as a manual laborer, dishwasher, bartender, restaurant manager, commercial photographer, magazine editor and public relations executive, I decided life should imitate art. I’m now a freelance writer and marketing communications consultant. I’ve published five novels in the Emerson Ward series (An Option On Death, Little Use For Death, Death Came Dressed In White, A Forever Death, and Death Is No Bargain). Island Life, my stand-alone novel about an ordinary suburban father's race to solve the mystery of what happened to his missing wife before he loses his children, his freedom and possibly his life, will be published in March, 2008.

I grew up in the Midwest, went to school “back east,” tried out Denver for a short time, and lived in Chicago for 20 years. I now live in the Seattle area with my beautiful wife and two of our four children. Please visit the Emerson Ward mystery series web site at www.emersonwardmysteries.com or www.michaelwsherer.com.