Tom Corcoran

Tom Corcoran is the author of ten Key West- and Lower Keys-based mysteries and numerous books of non-fiction. His two latest novels in the Alex Rutledge Series are The Cayo Hueso Maze, and Guava Moon Revenge. Also recent is the spin-off from his series, Crime Almost Pays, which features Dubbie Tanner and Wiley Fecko, characters introduced in earlier Rutledge books. They have formed a private-eye company, Southernmost Aristocratic Investigations. Tanner and Fecko played supporting roles in Corcoran's earlier mystery, The Quick Adios (Times Six).

Tom has lived in Florida for over 40 years, with ten of those years in Key West, and four years on Cudjoe Key. In addition to co-writing lyrics for the Jimmy Buffett favorites, Fins and Cuban Crime of Passion, he has been a bartender, a U.S. Navy officer, a professional photographer, a screenwriter, and an automotive magazine editor. His photos appeared on seven Jimmy Buffett album covers, and his portraits of Thomas McGuane, Hunter S. Thompson, Winston Groom, Les Standiford, and James W. Hall have appeared on numerous book dust jackets. Over 160 of Tom's photos of the 1970s and 1980s were collected in 2008's award-winning book, Key West in Black and White.

Corcoran also wears the hat of a publisher, producing and distributing titles such as The Railroad That Died at Sea; Yesterday's Florida Keys; Key West and the Spanish-American War; Yesterday's Key West; Papa Hemingway in Key West; and Jimmy Buffett - the Key West Years. He is, of course, hard at work on a new Alex Rutledge adventure.