Richard Cass is the author of the Elder Darrow jazz mystery series. The first book in the Boston series won the 2018 Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. The fifth, Sweetie Bogan’s Sorrow, won the Nancy Pearl Librarians’ Prize for Genre Fiction. The seventh book in the series, Closing Time, was published in October, 2024.

Dick also writes a Maine-based series featuring Ardmore Theberge, an ex-Army CID office turned surveyor and mapmaker. The first in the series is called The Last Altruist. The second, due in September 2026, is entitled Hard as a Headstone.

He's also published a book of short stories entitled Gleam of Bone.

He holds a graduate degree in writing from the University of New Hampshire, where he studied with Thomas Williams, Jr. and Joseph Monninger. He's also studied with Ernest Hebert, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Molly Gloss. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Playboy, Gray’s Sporting Journal, ZZYZVA, Tough, Shotgun Honey and Best Short Stories of the American West. He blogs with the Maine Crime Writers at mainecrimewriters.com. He lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine with his wife Anne.