JAN EVAN WHITFORD originally hails from Albuquerque, New Mexico. After active duty in the Marine Corps Reserve, he got his B.A. at UNM and then moved to St. Louis, Missouri where he worked as a cartographer for the Defense Mapping Agency for over twenty years. It was there that he and his wife, Barbara, raised their five sons: John, Joe, Jeff, Todd, and Troy. 

Semi-retired now, Mr. Whitford writes fictional novels and pitches them as equal parts mystery, romance, and humor. Some of his short humor pieces have been published in several magazines and newspapers. Mystic Fear, the second in Jan’s Nikki O’Connor mystery series, follows on the heels of Mystic Island, which was released by Hilliard & Harris Publishing in June of 2005.

Jan and his wife split their time between New England and the Florida panhandle, where he’s a member of the Emerald Coast Writers. 

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