The Ozarks
Nearly 30 years as a detectiveCasework in the hills of Southwest Missouri taught him how people lie, how they break, and how evidence actually turns up.
Richard Weter
Nearly thirty years as a police detective. Now he writes the cases down.
Richard Weter is a first-time author with nearly three decades of experience as a police detective in the rugged Ozark Mountains of Southwest Missouri. That career is the foundation of his storytelling: the interviews, the dead ends, the small details that break a case open.
Beyond Missouri, Richard lived for several years in the southern wetlands of Louisiana, and the experience shaped his writing deeply. Immersed in the culture and untamed landscape of the region, he came to understand both its people and its wildlife, some of which seem to dispense their own kind of justice.
Today Richard lives on the edge of the Ozark Mountains in Southern Missouri, where he keeps drawing on the land, the stories, and the lives he encountered throughout his career. The New Marshal in Town is his debut novel.
The ground he writes from
The Louisiana wetlands
Several years living thereThe bayou in the book isn’t researched from a distance. It’s the water, weather, and wildlife he lived beside.
Southern Missouri
Home todayHe writes from the edge of the Ozark Mountains, still drawing on the people and places of a long career.
“Only a detective could write this book.”
Cheryl Day, verified Amazon review