James Sulzer was an Intensive English major at Yale, worked in television for a number of years, then moved with his family year-round to the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts. In his early years on the island, he labored as a commercial scalloper and sang professionally in a barbershop quartet, then taught English for three decades.He has published three novels for adults and three middle-grade fantasy novels for children ages nine and up. All That Smolders is his first murder mystery and is written in honor of his mother, who was a big fan of Agatha Christie.