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About Mark Cohen...
Mark
Cohen grew up in Denver. He earned his BA in economics
at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington in 1980
and received his law degree from the University of Colorado
School of Law in Boulder in 1983. From 1983 to 1987
he served as a Judge Advocate (JAG) in the U.S. Air
Force. In 1986, he won the American Bar Association's
Outstanding Young Military Service Lawyer award. From
1987 to 1995, he practiced law in Omaha. He has authored
six articles published in the American Jurisprudence
Proof of Facts series. His non-legal articles have appeared
in magazines that include Inside Kung Fu and Camping
& RV.
He
served eighteen months as Interim Municipal Judge for
the City of Boulder and also served on the Executive
Board of the Colorado Municipal League. He lives with
his wife, two daughters, and three dogs in Nederland,
Colorado, seventeen miles west of and 3,000 feet above
Boulder. His interests include weightlifting (he can
bench press 300 pounds), karate and philosophy. The
Fractal Murders is his first novel. He has just finished
a new Pepper Keane novel.
Mark
Cohen's debut novel, The Fractal Murders, was
originally self-published and was chosen as a Book Sense
76 Top Mystery in 2002 and was a finalist for the Colorado
Book Award. Mysterious Press published a revised hardcover
edition (0-89296-799-4) in 5/04. The book has received
terrific reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist,
Kirdus Reviews, Dallas Morning News, and the Santa
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