G. H. Sherrer writes from Alabama’s Appalachian foothills, having published a first paid newspaper article at thirteen; was educated at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, spending years in the healthcare system gleaning characters and plots; a published journalist, columnist, an award winning writer, including First Chapter Novel Award from the Alabama Writers Conclave for this novel. Nonfiction published essays include interviews of playwrights Michael Vigilant and Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, Pulitzer Prize Poet Natasha Trethewey and the former kidnapped missionary Gracia Burnham. The Mall Street Sleuth was inspired by a compassionate adult in the author’s childhood.