James Tucker is a
physician and
author. He attended
Tufts University in
Boston and then
Columbia Medical School in
New York. He decided on being a
pediatrician, and completed his residency at
Children's Hospital of
Pittsburgh.
In 1998 he published his first work entitled Abra Cadaver. It was the first in, what is now, a trilogy of medical murder mysteries set in Pittsburgh. Tucker has always been interested in magic and has incorporated elements of it into each of his novels by way of lead character Jack Merlin (I know the last name might be a bit much).
His books to date (all of which are fun reads):