Jeff Markowitz spent forty-three years cre­at­ing pro­grams and ser­vices for indi­vid­u­als with autism, before retir­ing in 2018 to devote more time to writ­ing. The author of six nov­els, Jeff is a past Pres­i­dent of the New York chap­ter of Mys­tery Writ­ers of Amer­i­ca. He lives in Mon­mouth Junc­tion, NJ, with his wife Car­ol and two cats, Vir­gil and Aeneas.