Frank Kozusko is a retired US Navy submarine officer and nuclear engineer. After the Navy, he spent 20 years as a university professor of mathematics. Third beat: Writer. He’s been published in Bewildering Stories, Ariel Chart, Pilcrow & Dagger, Literally Stories, The Avalon Literary Review, and Over My Dead Body, and anthologized in Paradox: The Inner Circle Writers’ Group Crime/Mystery/Thriller Anthology 2019, The Twofer Compendium,and Bubble Off-Plumb. His retro-noir detective Jake Malloy will appear in “The Trench Coat Chronicles” and the “Jersey Pines Ink Whodunit Anthology.”