Waights TaylorWaights Taylor Jr., born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, has lived in Santa Rosa, California, for twenty years. His professional career included twenty-four years in the aviation industry and then twenty-two years in management consulting. When hi professional career was coming to an end, he turned to writing. Taylor has written five books, starting with two non-fiction books: Alfons Mucha's Slav Epic: An Artist's History of the Slavic People (2008), and the award-winning Our Southern Home: Scottsboro to Montgomery to Birmingham-The Transformation of the South in the Twentieth Century (2011). Three murder mysteries followed, a trilogy featuring private detectives Joe McGrath and Sam Rucker: the award-winning Kiss of Salvation (2014), Touch of Redemption (2016), and concluding the trilogy, Heed the Apocalypse (2017). Read More Read Less