Multicultural romance and mystery novelist J. J. Murray writes multicultural novels in all genres. He grew up in New York (Huntington), New Jersey (Plainfield), Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh), Missouri (St. Louis), Indiana (West Lafayette and College Corners), and Ohio (Marietta), and has now lived more than half his life in southwest Virginia. After college (Marietta (OH) he settled in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia and taught history and English for thirty-two years to students who sometimes actually spoke it. He lives with his sons, his beard, his long hair, his imagination, and Lovie the Wonder Mutt in a house built in 1928. Readers can visit J. J.'s website at JohnJeffreyMurray.com.