Rick Cochran

Rick Cochran is the recipient of the coveted KIRKUS MAGAZINE "STAR" REVIEW for his novel DEATH AT BOUND BROOK PIER which was chosen as a KIRKUS "Indie Book of the Month" for October 2024. His new book TRUE TO HIS COUNTRY: A CIVIL WAR NOVEL (2025) is based on the lives of his great-grandparents. William Martin, New York Times Bestselling author said this about it “… The battle scenes are powerful, and domestic scenes are filled with hope and yearning, and the whole work shot through with the spirit of brave people fighting to preserve the Union. An excellent addition to anyone’s Civil War library.”

Rick grew up in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts where his father was the principal of the local high school. His murder mystery novels, Murder at Bound Brook (2017), Bound Brook Pond (2020) and Death at Bound Brook Pier (2021) are set in a fictional version of Wellfleet in 1952. He is also the author of the short-story memoir collections, Wellfleet Tales (2015) and Wellfleet Tales II - Confessions of a Wash-Ashore (2016) as well as a contributor to Cape Cod Life magazine and the Barnstable Patriot. He is a retired educator with degrees from Tufts and Northeastern. Rick still lives at the beach, just a different one, Nantasket Beach in Hull, Massachusetts. He is the creator of the Facebook group, Wellfleet Tales, which shares old and new photos and stories of Wellfleet, Cape Cod.