MICHAEL NETHERCOTT has had his work appear in numerous magazines and anthologies including Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year, Thin Ice, and Crimestalkers Casebook. He is a past winner of The Black Orchid Novella Award, The Vermont Playwrights Award, and the Clauder Competition (Best Vermont Play) and a Shamus Award nomine. He lives with his family in Vermont.Some reviews of the novel The Séance Society (the O'Nelligan/Plunkett mystery series): "This clever series opener offers a mid-century take on the traditional drawing-room mystery...There is a sweet charm to this mystery, ensuring that readers will want to see more from O'Nelligan and Plunkett."--Booklist "A classically styled Holmesian whodunit."--Publishers Weekly"An intriguing and suspenseful mystery story. The first sentence sets the tone for the book: 'Heed well the dead...for they hover at our ears.'"--Irish American News"Nethercott's debut is a pleasantly retro whodunit, set in 1956, in which otherworldly spirits compete for attention with flesh-and-blood types." --Kirkus Reviews His latest novel in the O'Nelligan/Plunkett series is the Greenwich Village mystery The Haunting Ballad,