Richard "Dick" Groves is retired from a thirty-eight-year career in private practice dentistry and is a lifelong football fan with a passion for writing crime suspense and mystery. A member of the New Hampshire Writer's Project and critique group and the New England Crime Bake, he also enjoys writing short stories and flash fiction. He is a graduate of Northeastern University and the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry and served six years in the Navy Dental Corps. Post-retirement, he participated in two humanitarian missions to the Pacific on board Navy ships and two "Missions of Mercy" to Appalachia, providing much-needed dental treatment to these areas.