Roberto Ten’’s Last Job

Deckle McLean spent ten years as a newspaper and magazine journalist and then thirty years as a journalism professor. He has written many news and feature articles on education, politics, law, crime, and popular culture; and academic articles and books related to mass communications law. He also has written several mystery novels. He was born and grew up in New Jersey, graduated from Harvard, and earned a law degree from Boston College Law School. Along the way he learned that good and evil bleed into one another - a perspective that informs his fiction. He has been asked whether he always wanted to write mysteries. His reply is no. He did not consider mystery-writing until his retirement from teaching approached. He found that he liked it. It provided a flexible genre that could embrace a universe of observations. He has a website, ldmclean.com.