Dalgliesh, Les

On his fiftieth birthday, Les Dalgliesh realized that it was time to stop stalling. It came to him that there would never be a time when he could drop everything and write the novels that had been, for all of his life, meandering through his brain. The next morning, he was up at five o'clock, writing. Writing before dawn became a habit, and by the end of that year, he'd finished his first novel. By the end of the next year, he'd finished another. And for the next three years, he continued to write, every morning at five o'clock. Les grew up in the mountains of northern California where he went...