Richard J. Brewer has worked as a bookseller, a writer, an actor and a narrator/director of audiobooks. He is the co-editor of the critically acclaimed anthologies, Meeting Across the River (Bloomsbury USA), Occupied Earth (Polis Books) and Culprits: The heist was only the beginning (Polis Books). Culprits is now an eight-part limited television series for Disney+UK and Hulu in the U.S. His short story Last to Die appeared in the Bruce Springsteen inspired anthology Trouble in the Heartland (Gutter Books) and received an honorable mention in Best American Mystery Stories of 2015 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) his latest story, Mysterious Ways, can be found in the Devil themed anthology The Devil You Know Better (Critical Blast).