Palms, Paradise, Poison

John Keyse-Walker is an American author and lawyer. He grew up in Columbia Station, Ohio. He is an avid outdoorsman who spent much of his youth exploring, fishing and swimming, but he also enjoyed reading. He is a graduate of the College of Wooster, in Wooster, Ohio where he majored in political science. His law degree is from Duke University School of Law. He practiced law for thirty years in Elyria, Ohio. For many years he served as the firm's managing partner. He retired in 2012. It took him two years to write his debut novel, Sun, Sand, Murder, published in 2016. It won the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award. Beach, Breeze, Bloodshed is his second book, published in 2017. The two books comprise the Teddy Creque Mysteries Series.

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