And Darkness Fell (25 page)

David Berardelli was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Gibsonia,
an agricultural and mining area north of the city. Formerly a jazz musician, he
studied music at Duquesne University before being drafted into the U.S. Army.
There, he served as a member of the 80th Army Band at Hunter Army Airfield in
Savannah, Georgia, and performed in the Third Army Soldier Show at Fort
McPherson in Atlanta. He also served as a bugler at nearly two hundred military
funerals between 1970 and 1971. He has also been a caricaturist, a nightclub
musician, and a data-processing associate.

He lives on a thirty-acre horse ranch in southern Mississippi with his wife
Linda and their horses and dogs, along with a variety of birds, squirrels, raccoons,
coyotes, foxes, and deer.

His published novels include
The Apprentice
,
Wagon Driver
,
Demon Chaser
,
Demon Chaser II
,
The Funny Detective
,
Just a Simple Errand
,
Stepping Out of
My Grave
,
Escape Clause
,
Fatal Innocence
,
Colors
, and
Working for a Mob
Boss
.