John Neu served for forty years as Bibliographer for the History of Science in the University of Wisconsin Memorial Library in Madison, holding a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in the University's Department of the History of Science. After retirement in 2000, he moved to the Wisconsin north woods, near the small towns of Townsend and Lakewood, where he lives in a cottage on a lake. His previous novels include The Tiger's Child (2006), Show Me the Way to go Home (2009), The Boy Detective (2011), The Dead Leaves Fall (2012), and Dog Eat Dog (2014).