Bradley Harper’s debut novel, A Knife in the Fog, involves a young Arthur Conan Doyle joining in the hunt for Jack the Ripper and was released in October 2018. A Knife in the Fog was the winner of the 2019 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion for Best Mystery Novel and was a Finalist for the 2019 Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel by an American Author. It is a Recommended Read by the Arthur Conan Doyle estate and the audio book, narrated by former Royal Shakespearean actor Matthew Lloyd Davies, won Audiofile Magazine's Earphone Award. Harper’s second book, Queen’s Gambit, the sequel to A Knife in the Fog, was released on September 17,, 2019, and won the 2020 Silver Falchion Award at Killer Nashville twice, first as Best Suspense, then as Book of the Year. Harper is a retired US Army Pathologist with over 37 years of worldwide military/medical experience, ultimately serving as a Colonel/Physician in the Pentagon. During his Army career, Harper performed some 200 autopsies, 20 of which were forensic. Upon retiring from the Army, Harper earned an Associate's Degree in Creative Writing from Full Sail University, and a Masters from Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has been published in The Strand Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, The Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine and a short story he wrote involving Professor Moriarty in the Holmes tale of The Red Headed League (entitled The Red Herring League) won Honorable Mention in an international short fiction contest. A member of the Mystery Writers of America, Authors Guild, and Sisters in Crime. Harper was inducted into the Royal Scottish Society of the Arts in September, 2021, after his presentation to the Society of his talk on forensic science entitled, "Sherlock Holmes as Science Fiction."