Dan Coleman is a native of Newport News and Hampton, Virginia, who has lived almost half his life in the Carolinas, North & South.

He served in the U.S. Marine Corps before and during the Vietnam conflict, and attended Christopher Newport College of the College of William & Mary in the 1960s, later graduating from CNC with a degree in Political Science.

He has a decades-long interest in cold cases of homicide and missing persons, and was the founder of the short-lived International Crime Study Club of the early 1980s.

His writing includes literary and mystery fiction, and he's currently preparing several completed novels for publication. His first crime novel, FOUL SHOT, first in a series of murder mysteries featuring private eye Wray Larrick, will be published soon.

He is retired from sales and marketing, and lives with his family in eastern North Carolina, where he is developing a new business.