Richard C Conrath

Blood Moon Rising, finalist for the 2019 Royal Palm Literary Award, is Richard Conrath's second novel in a trilogy featuring Cooper, a private detective, who searches for his young kidnapped son while trying to track down other missing people. Conrath is a former Catholic priest who left to teach philosophy in a small college while freelancing for papers like the Cleveland Plain dealer and Sunday Magazine. He left teaching in 1984 and began a series of three-year stints in administration as a...See more

Blood Moon Rising, finalist for the 2019 Royal Palm Literary Award, is Richard Conrath's second novel in a trilogy featuring Cooper, a private detective, who searches for his young kidnapped son while trying to track down other missing people. Conrath is a former Catholic priest who left to teach philosophy in a small college while freelancing for papers like the Cleveland Plain dealer and Sunday Magazine. He left teaching in 1984 and began a series of three-year stints in administration as a college vice-president, president, and then as headmaster of an American school in Turkey. It was there, during the darkness of the Turkish winters, that he began to write his first mystery. See less