Mel Starr was born and grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. After graduating with a MA in history from Western Michigan University in 1970, he taught history in Michigan public schools for thirty-nine years, thirty-five of those in Portage, MI, where he retired in 2003 as chairman of the social studies department of Portage Northern High School. Mel and his wife, Susan, have two daughters and seven grandchildren.

“At last a worthy successor to Ellis Peters. Mel Starr brings medieval crime to life in the brilliant 8th chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon. As a crime writer and medievalist I’m looking forward to absorbing more books by Mel Starr.”

Mel Starr was born and grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. After graduating with a MA in history from Western Michigan University in 1970, he taught history in Michigan public schools for thirty-nine years, thirty-five of those in Portage, MI, where he retired in 2003 as chairman of the social studies department of Portage Northern High School. Mel and his wife, Susan, have two daughters and seven grandchildren.

“At last a worthy successor to Ellis Peters. Mel Starr brings medieval crime to life in the brilliant 8th chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon. As a crime writer and medievalist I’m looking forward to absorbing more books by Mel Starr.”