Peter Swan has practiced marine casualty and product liability law in a large San Francisco firm, worked as a tenured law professor, and served as General Counsel of the University of Oregon. Along the way, he has written a book on legal issues related to the production of oil from the North Sea. His interests have included mountaineering, traveling abroad, playing saxophone in a swing band, skiing, and golfing. Upon retirement, he has turned his hand to writing thrillers and mysteries. His published novels are Past Due and Unnatural Causes, the first two in the current Rick Conwright, PI seri...