Stephen Kronwith, MD, Ph.D., lives in Floral Park, New York. Born in Brooklyn, he’s had an unusual career, including serving as a university professor of mathematics, a programmer at IBM, and a private / university-based pediatric ophthalmologist for 31 years. He had wanted to write a novel for many years, but couldn’t find the time until recently. He started writing his first story, Lover Boy, six months before retiring. Though complicated and slowed by working among healthcare professionals in the hospital and office during the hectic early months of the COVID crisis, he completed the manuscript about eight months later. Writing Lover Girl went much faster, with retirement and COVID restrictions leaving little else to do, as did Lover Child, his third entry in the Lover Boy trilogy. Bloody Deeds is his latest novel, the third in the Detective Jane Rieger-Franklin trilogy.