Dr. David Ciambrone is a retired aerospace and defense company executive, scientist, professor of engineering, and a business and environmental consultant and is now a best selling, award winning author living in Georgetown, Texas with his wife Kathy. He has published twenty-five (25) books: four (4) non-fiction, two (2) textbooks for a California university, and nineteen (19) mysteries and has two (2) new mysteries in work. He is the author of the Virginia Davies Quilt Mysteries.

Writing Awards:

• 2008 Sage Award
• TEXAS Mystery Book of the Summer award 2009–San Gabriel’s Secret–Dallas Book Guild
• American Academy of Environmental Engineers 1998 listed Waste Minimization as a Strategic Weapon a best seller (nonfiction)
• 2013, 2014 Nominated for the Lovey Award– Love is Murder Conference