Peter Moreira

Peter Moreira writes the Haight Mystery Series, historical crime novels set in 1960s San Francisco. Lieutenant Jimmy Spracklin investigates murder and mayhem in Haight-Ashbury, where the Summer of Love has given way to harder drugs, darker secrets, and dangerous people.

Peter first fell for Haight-Ashbury after hitchhiking from Vancouver to San Francisco in 1981. His career in journalism included postings in Ottawa, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London, but he kept returning to one idea: a whodunnit with hippies.

After publishing several nonfiction books, including Hemingway on the China Front, Peter launched the series with The Haight in 2017. In 2025, he began to broaden the scope of his fiction with the publication of Presidio Biotech, a technothriller set in San Francisco in modern times. The hero is Jake Spracklin, Jimmy's grandson. Peter intends to produce a library of thrillers featuring the Spracklin family, most of which will be set in San Francisco.