Thomas A. Burns, Jr. is the author of the Natalie McMasters Mysteries.
He was born and grew up in New Jersey, attended Xavier High School in
Manhattan, earned B.S degrees in Zoology and Microbiology at Michigan
State University and a M.S. in Microbiology at North Carolina State
University. He currently resides in Wendell, North Carolina. As a kid,
Tom started reading mysteries with the Hardy Boys, Ken Holt and Rick
Brant, and graduated to the classic stories by authors such as A. Conan
Doyle, Dorothy Sayers, John Dickson Carr, Erle Stanley Gardner and Rex
Stout, to name a few. Tom has written fiction as a hobby all of his
life, starting with Man from U.N.C.L.E. stories in marble-backed
copybooks in grade school. He built a career as technical, science and
medical writer and editor for nearly thirty years in industry and
government. Now that he's truly on his own as a novelist, he's excited
to publish his own mystery series, as well as to contribute stories
about his second most favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, to the MX
anthology of New Sherlock Holmes Stories.