Tony Rogers has won the Nilsen Prize for Best First Novel and the Writers Voice Capricorn Award for a collection of short stories. His award-winning novel, The Execution Of Richard Sturgis, As Told By His Son, Colin, was published by the Southeast Missouri State University Press. His memoir, Fake Smiles, was published by Tidepool Press and praised by Walter Isaacson, Michael Lynton, and Jeffrey Frank. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Pleiades, The Boston Globe Magazine, and many others. He has practiced law, run a veterans hospital, and been a member of the musicians’ union of Washington, DC. He holds degrees from Harvard Law School and from Yale.
Tony Rogers has won the Nilsen Prize for Best First Novel and the Writers Voice Capricorn Award for a collection of short stories. His award-winning novel, The Execution Of Richard Sturgis, As Told By His Son, Colin, was published by the Southeast Missouri State University Press. His memoir, Fake Smiles, was published by Tidepool Press and praised by Walter Isaacson, Michael Lynton, and Jeffrey Frank. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared...
Retired Judge Jim Randall sits shoulder-to-shoulder on the Lechmere bus with a young man who is screaming at his mother over his speaker phone, “I hate you! I hate you! You’ll never see me again!” A short time later, the young man’s battered and broken body is found in the water beneath Boston’s Tobin Bridge. Unable to get the young man’s...
After twenty-one years as a judge on the Massachusetts Superior Court, Jim Randall retires and uses his knowledge of the criminal mind to solve crimes. In Judge Randall and the Identical Twin, a theft from the Harvard Art Museum leads Jim to the loneliest man he has ever met. Jim questions his objectivity after he finds himself identifying with...
Connie Hawkins, a law student Pat Knowles mentored, goes missing with her boyfriend, Crankshaft, who is the front man of a heavy metal band. Jim Randall hates the pile driver beat of heavy metal but as he searches for Connie, finds himself immersed in its dark world.
