J. R. Lindermuth is the author of 18 novels, including eight in his popular Sticks Hetrick mystery series and four in the Sheriff Sylvester Tilghman series (a fifth is coming), and two non-fiction regional history books.



A retired newspaper editor, he currently serves as librarian of his county historical society where he assists patrons with genealogy and research.

 

He is a member of and International Thriller Writers and served a term serves as vice president of the Short Mystery Fiction Society of which he is still an active member.



A native Pennsylvanian, he is the father of two children and has four grandsons.