The first Crime Files: Four-Minute Forensics book Body of Evidence is now available for the Kindle and Nook. Who shot the crooked lawyer? How did a corpse in the morgue get up and walk around? Most important — who ate the last piece of chocolate cake? CSI Wes Burton and his crew use forensics and bad jokes to solve these cases and more for a total of fifty-one mysteries. The solution is at the end of each mystery, but can you solve it...

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When I was writing Crime Files (and there may be some more soon), my editor came back with some notes about too many instances of he said, she said. Problem was, in some scenes there were four or five people talking, and each speaker had to be identified to avoid confusion. So a scene could go: “I don’t see any blood,” said Burton. “Maybe it’s been cleaned up,” Trellis said. “I don’t clean...

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Thanks to everyone at Moorsbridge Elementary for making my time there fun, and for buying so many...

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I had a great time visiting with the students at Schoolcraft Upper Elementary during Detective...

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My trip to South Haven North Shore Elementary School went fantastic, and all the kids were very polite and had great questions. Thanks to everyone!

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I got to visit Paw Paw and see some of the teachers I had in elementary and middle school, and chat with their students. I hope they all had as much fun as I did! Click the images to see more. This is what happens when you tell a room full of kids that anyone who pins you gets a free...

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