About

My name is Randy Wisehart. I live with my wife Tammy and our adopted racing greyhounds, Monroe and Wynter. I have published a series of cozy mysteries featuring Rachel Chance and her Greyhounds as well as three works of historical fiction intended for young people, but word is that adults enjoy reading them as well.

Tammy and I are passionate about our retired Greyhounds. They are wonderful companions. They sleep a lot and totally earn the title “couch potato”. They work very hard at being retired. We exercise them regularly. At least three walks a day every day. And on the weekend, we take them to a large fenced area to play with their friends, other Greyhounds. They love to run. That is how they play.

I am sometimes asked when I knew I wanted to be an author. Honestly, I think I knew almost before I could read. I remember playing with action figures and entire sets of The Alamo, The Revolutionary War, The Civil War and naturally some dinosaurs and barnyard animals. I would get them out and start thinking about adventures they could have. I’d set them up in my bedroom, into a closet, then back into my bedroom and into a hallway down t he stairs and into the living room. All the while I’d think about adventures the figures were having. Sometimes with dinosaurs, sometimes without.

Naturally I read a lot. Always have. Always will. And when I would read books or watch television shows as a child or teenager, I would often wonder: What if I could rewrite this book or show? I read a lot of mysteries. I especially like to read books that include an amateur sleuth, someone who is not in law enforcement. I have enjoyed mysteries for young adults (classics by Lois Duncan and Joan Lowery Nixon). But I read many mysteries.  I have enjoyed reading David Rosenfelt and Donna Ball who include dogs in their mysteries. Over the years, I wondered if I could create a character who owned a Greyhound who became involved in a mystery? Now I know. I’ve enjoyed writing about Rachel Chance and her love for Greyhounds.

My most recent books are Murder on Greyhound Beach and another historical fiction novel, Familes of Two Fires: Forging America’s Frontier 1776-1832. I’m currently working on another mystery tentatively titled A Slow Race to Justice.