<strong></strong>Mike Paull, a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, had two passions that preceded his writing career. He was a practicing dentist and a licensed commercial pilot. In 2000, he retired from dental practice and in 2010, he retired from flying to devout full time to writing.<br><br>His first book, <em>Tales from the Sky Kitchen Café</em>, is a series of short stories describing his experiences as a pilot hanging out in a small airport coffee shop. His next series of books, the <em>Brett Raven Mystery Trilogy</em>, features a dentist as the protagonist and mystery solver. <br><br>In 2021 Mike introduced, <em>Missing,</em> a spy thriller. <em>She’s Missing, </em>Book II in the Missing series, was published in 2022. What is advertised as the last book in the series, <em>Missing in the Maldives</em>, was released for publication by Wings ePress Inc. in April, 2023.<br><br>Mike and his wife Bev now live two hundred miles north of San Francisco in Chico, CA.