Roger Johns is the author of the Wallace Hartman Mysteries, Dark River Rising (2017) and River of Secrets (2018) from St.Martin's Press/Minotaur Books. He is the 2018 Georgia Author of the Year (Detective/Mystery Category), a 2018 Killer Nashville Readers Choice Award nominee, a finalist for the 2018 Silver Falchion Award for best police procedural and the 2019 Frank Yerby Fiction Award, and the 2019 JKS Communications Author-in-Residence.
Roger's articles and interviews on writing and the writing life have appeared in Career Author, Criminal Element, Killer Nashville Articles, and Southern Literary Review, and along with several other crime fiction authors, he coauthors the MurderBooks blog.