About the Author

Robert Rodman was born in Boston, raised and educated in Los Angeles, and is living presently in Raleigh, North Carolina. While no stranger to writing – as a college professor he has written textbooks, monographs and scholarly essays – fiction writing is a relatively recent undertaking, and inspired in part by Paul Theroux’s observation that “Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.”

An admirer of Ayn Rand’s character Dagny Taggart of Atlas Shrugged, Rodman reincarnates her as the private investigator Dagny Taggart Jamison, whom he attempts to endow with the character strengths of the original Dagny. Rodman also creates the character of forensic pathologist Charles Cranston Clarke, a fictional descendant of the character Sir John Cranston, created by Paul Doherty in his Brother Athelstan mysteries. Dagny and Charles meet for the first time in The Evil That Men Do.