George Hopkins, a former United States Marine Corps sergeant, has worked as an educator, a grant administrator, a freelance writer, an intergenerational coordinator, and the author of six other suspense/ thrillers involving the same characters. He has won awards for his poetry, novels, teaching, television production, and community service. The Staten Island Butcher is the seventh suspense/thriller involving the priest and his brother. All his novels in this ongoing series, Blood Brothers, Collateral Consequences, Letters from the Dead, Random Acts of Malice, Unholy Retribution and Chasing the Devil's Breath, have received five star reviews. His website is www.george-hopkins.com, and his author's page on Amazon is amazon.com/author/georgehopkins.