Irving Munro was born in Scotland. He and his wife have been married for over 40 years and they have two children and three grandchildren. They left Scotland in 1981 and settled in Thousand Oaks, California where they lived for 20 years before relocating to Austin Texas. Irving is an engineer by profession but spent most of his professional working life in the enterprise software industry. He retired from the software industry in 2014 and he now writes crime fiction novels. The End of Summer is the first book in The Detective Bill Ross Crime Series.