Born in the mid-West in 1949, Keith Heller for many years taught English literature, most recently at a Californian University. Together with his wife and daughter he lived abroad for seven years, three of which were spent in Madrid. He also lived in Japan and Argentina. A published poet, he is the author of a highly acclaimed trio of crime novels set in eighteenth-century London, which appeared in the UK and America in the mid-eighties. SNOW ON THE MOON is his first work of general fiction. Now retired from university teaching, he lives in California where he writes full time.