Gary Meyer is a native of northern New Jersey who worked more than 30 years as a small-town journalist in North Carolina, Tennessee and New York. He graduated in 1974 from Boston University, cum laude, with a degree in communications. After working as a news reporter for three Southern dailies (in HIckory, N.C., Bristol, VA-Tenn., and Kingsport, Tenn.) from 1974-1982, he earned a master's degree in journalism, with distinction, from Northwestern University. He and his wife then owned and operated the Clinton (NY) Courier weekly from 1982 to 1992. Meyer subsequently ran his own newspaper, Kirkland Newspaper/NewsLine, for eight years. "What You Don't Know" is his second novel, following up his 2012 murder mystery, "This Point in Time." He and his wife, Marjorie, have two sons, Michael "Mickey" and Samuel, and live in Clinton, NY. Mickey is a graduate of the University of Southern California and currently is a leader in the production of direct-to-YouTube original videos at JASH in Culver City, Calif. Among its most popular channels are those of comedian Sarah Silverman and actor Michael Cera. Sam is a senior voice major at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. His music videos can be seen on YouTube. Mickey and his wife, Terra, welcomed their first child, son Logan Dashiell, in November 2011 and now have a second son, Knox Parker, born last July. Mickey's middle name also is Dashiell, a tribute to one of Gary's favorite authors, Dashiell Hammett. That homage continued with the naming of his second son Samuel, which was Hammett's actual first name. The couple in "This Point in Time," Mitch and Melody Ambrose, are patterned after Nick and Nora Charles, the protagonists in Hammett's classic "The Thin Man" novel. Gary also writes a blog, Geezer Alert, focusing on life's many facets from the vantage point of a man entering his senior years.