Bruce Hartman lives with his wife in Philadelphia. He has worked as a pianist, music teacher, bookseller and attorney and has been writing fiction for many years. His first novel, Perfectly Healthy Man Drops Dead, won the Salvo Press Mystery Novel Award and was published by Salvo Press in 2008. The Rules of Dreaming and The Muse of Violence were both published by Swallow Tail Press in 2013. His most recent book is The Philosophical Detective, published in June 2014.