Michael W. Sherer grew up on a farm in northern Illinois, went to prep school and college back east, and lived in Chicago for twenty years. After stints as a manual laborer, dishwasher, bartender, restaurant manager, commercial photographer, magazine editor, and public relations executive, Sherer decided life should imitate art and became a novelist. He is a member of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, and the Authors Guild. In addition to Night Blind, the first thriller in the Blake Sanders series, he has published six novels in the Emerson Ward mystery series, includ...