Dick Peterson

Dick Peterson spent his first 42 years in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1992, employment moved him to the Kansas suburbs of KCMO. He now describes himself as a Kansan by residence, a Missourian by retirement, a Louisianan by birth, Southern by the grace of God, and a Tybee Islander at heart.

No longer hiding out in a bank on weekdays, you can often find him hanging at coffeehouses using their eclectic patrons as models for characters in one suspenseful chapter after another. There's also plenty of time for reading, bicycling, golfing, keeping tabs on a lifetime collection of friends through Facebook, enjoying Words with Friends, and hanging out with his wife, Suzie, with whom a few games of Shut the Box is an after meal ritual. They love to travel, especially to visit family and to spend time at The Doozy, the island dwelling they recently acquired two blocks from the beach and Atlantic Ocean on Tybee Island, Georgia, the coastal gateway to Savannah, where history and art and gardens of good and evil can be found.

Dick takes pride in bleeding purple and gold for LSU and for being a member of the Who Dat Nation. He also admits to the guilty pleasure of loving Jayhawk basketball.