On April 4th, 2009, three years ago, I wrote the first paragraph to my first book, Classmate Murders. I had no idea how this journey of three years would go. I'm now up to 20 of that series and three of another, and I can't seem to stop. The royalties are unbelievable now, but that is not the best aspect about my writing. It's the people who have sent me unsolicited email and online comments about how much they enjoy my books and even bought all of them to read. It honestly humbles me when I read the nice things they say about my characters, and I do respond to everyone of them. I put a lot of heart into my book characters and they are real to me. I believe they are my family and so are all the fans of the books. They share the same feelings I have for Jim and Penny and the gang. I hope the next three years, if I live, will be as good as the last three. Thank you from my heart to all the people who have read and enjoyed my books, Bob.

Detroit area resident, Bob Moats, has been writing short stories and plays for as long as he can remember. He has lost most of his original stories, typed or handwritten, in the numerous moves he has made from his hometown of Fraser, Michigan to Northern Michigan, to Las Vegas and back to Fraser, where he now lives. He also wrote the short fantasy novella "Crystal Prison of Kyr" and is a published playwright with his three act comedy "Happily Ever After".

Moats became one of the causalities of unemployment early in 2009, and had time on his hands to finally pursue a life long dream of writing a full blown crime novel. Thus was born the first book, "Classmate Murders".

What followed was a series of twenty murder novels starting with "Classmate Murders" which introduces the main character, Jim Richards, who has to admit he has become a senior citizen, reluctantly. Richards, one day, receives an email from a childhood sweetheart asking for his help, but by the time he reaches her, she has been murdered. His life turns around and he is pulled into numerous murders of women from his high school who he hasn't seen in forty years. Along with a friend of his, Buck, a big, mustached biker, they go off to track down the killer before he can get to one former classmate, Penny Wickens, a TV talk show host who Jim has fallen for while protecting her. The killer is also murdering the women right out from under police protection, driving homicide detective Will Trapper crazy, and he slowly depends on Jim to help.

There's humor, suspense, wild chases across suburban Detroit with cops, classic cars and motorcycle clubs; murder, mayhem, a good amount of romance and a twist ending.