Mike Robertson, now resigned to the routine of retirement, continues to entertain the notion that he may have literary endowments, a compulsion he had pursued over the past decade with the production and the publication of various literary projects. His most recent effort, a novel entitled The First Communion Murders, is his seventh book, joining three collections of shorts stories, Casting Shadows, Parts of a Past, and These Memories Clear, three volumes of literary entertainments entitled The Smart Aleck Chronicles, and a barely recalled novel entitled Gone and Back. For reasons unknown, Mike Robertson lives in Ottawa, Canada.