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Welcome! I’m Christopher Mirabile. If you love vivid, character-driven mysteries set in gorgeous, evocative locations as much as I do, you’ve come to the right place. I grew up with a librarian for a mom and a life-long love of books. An English major and avid photographer, I enjoy hiking the dunes around my home in the Cape Cod National Seashore with my wife and two busy dogs. So, it was a natural to create intricate mysteries for cowboy-turned-cop Silas Lopez to solve in his adopted beachside home with his cattle dog Bandit and the love of his life, Wren Bradford. Silas works in his own special way, and his voice is like no other. You have to see this guy in action to believe it. I also love to talk about the craft of writing and have several Silas Lopez books in the pipeline, so be sure to join my mailing list using the form below.

Silas Lopez probably should’ve stayed on the open range of New Mexico and Colorado. Life was simpler on horseback, where trouble showed in a bull’s eye and could be settled with strong, steady hands. But staying was never in the cards for this fifteenth-generation rancher.

He traded cattle drives for city streets, spending years as a cop in Salt Lake City—until the corruption got too thick to breathe and his temper made staying impossible. So he and his cattle dog, Bandit, sold near everything they owned, climbed into their Jeep, and headed east to see what else the world held.

Fate dropped them in Provincetown, a windswept village at the far tip of Cape Cod—twenty-five miles out to sea from the polished chaos of the East Coast. Somehow Silas found himself wearing a badge again, this time as Chief—and, to his own surprise, falling under the spell of Wren Bradford, a debutante-turned-photographer and social worker with roots as deep as the dunes. He doesn’t talk much, but when he does, people listen. His compass never wavers, his work ethic could shame an ox, and his smarts were forged the only way that counts—by surviving.