LOST MAN’S LANE Excerpt

October 13, 2023

A conversation about earthquakes made me decide it is time I tell the truth. Let me explain the lying first. That started in 1999, when I was six- teen years old, and became the coconspirator of a murdered man. I turned forty last summer, staring down the barrel at...

First Chapter Fun

September 15, 2023

Michael was honored to have AN HONEST MAN featured on First Chapter Fun, and Hank Phillippi Ryan did an incredible job of reading the first chapter! You can watch and listen to the episode below and on Facebook. There were also a bunch of fantastic questions from...

ON Maine Storytelling

August 16, 2023

Beauty and brutality share the same waters and ridges; the place is always active, and the idyllic moment may be swiftly replaced with a punishing one. The past weighs heavily on the present, chilled breaths on the neck as you drive by tilting tombstones in forgotten...

On Beginning a Career in a Morgue

August 9, 2023

I’m now 18 books into a career that began in a morgue – really – and has taken me to the Maine islands where my latest, AN HONEST MAN, is set. After that many books, it’s interesting to look back for commonalities. The obvious answer is that they all fall under the...