Gary Corbin spent too many years in college at Louisiana State andIndiana University, largely to escape the fate of having to become apart-time logger, farmer, and construction worker like so many membersof his immense family.

After growing up in a small town on the east coast, in athree-bedroom house shared with eight siblings, two strict parents and a dog, he escaped again to the Pacific Northwest, where he is once againsurrounded by loggers, farmers, construction workers, and a dog.

Rather than respond with murderous rages, he now escapes by writing murdermystery novels about families of loggers, farmers, and constructionworkers who have strict parents and a dog.

A homebrewer andcoffee roaster, Gary loves to ski, cook, and watch his beloved Red Soxand Patriots. And when they lose, he escapes to the Oregon coast withhis sweetheart.