B Harper MD is an author of historical fiction. He retired as a US Army Pathologist with over thirty-seven years of world-wide military/medical experience, culminating as a Colonel/Physician in the Pentagon. He has been published in The Strand Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, and a piece accepted by the Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. His first novel, A KNIFE IN THE FOG, involving Arthur Conan Doyle in the hunt for Jack the Ripper, was released by Seventh Street Books on October 2, 2018, and was an Edgar Finalist for Best First Novel and winner of the Silver Falchion Award. A member of the Authors Guild, Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters in Crime, he is a regular contributor to the Sisters in Crime bi-monthly newsletter.
When not writing, Dr. Harper can be found either in Galicia, Spain, where he volunteers at a pilgrim hostel along the Camino to Santiago de Compostela or working as a professional Santa Claus. A kindly sort, he never threatens those on the Naughty List with coal, but with burnt cookies.
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