After a seven-year stint in the Florida State Prison System, Michael Lister was paroled and began to put pen to paper. The result was gun lit set in the Sunshine StateùFlorida Noir (www.FloridaNoir.com) His first two noir stories, one classic, one contemporary, are featured in the anthology North Florida Noir, which he edited. In a Spider's Web is classic noir featuring PI Jimmy ôSoldierö Riley (see below), while Mitigating Circumstances is neo-noir involving the slow burn of a family disintegrating in the small coastal town of Port St. Joe, Florida.His first noir novel, The Big Goodbye features PI Jimmy ôSoldierö Riley, a young knight errant who walks the wartime streets of Panama City, Florida, wounded and woman-haunted.Michael Lister is also the author of a series of mysteries featuring ex-cop turned prison chaplain, John Jordan (Power in the Blood, Blood of the Lamb, The Body and the Blood), and writes a monthly crime fiction column titled Sunshine and Crime (www.SunshineandCrime.com). For more about the author, go to www.MichaelLister.com