Richard W. Goffman is the author of the MR. BACHMAN SERIES of Jersey shore thrillers including HEARTLESS CRUELTY, as well as other books, textbooks, stories, poetry, plays, screenplays and articles. He has also worked in journalism, and spent 25 years in the entertainment field where he wrote articles and marketing pieces for the movie and music industries. Goffman is a professor of writing at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. He lives, writes and teaches in the wilds of northern New Jersey, with his wife, Linda Watkins, a fellow writer, and a basenji named Alice and a cat n...