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Michael Maloney is a native of York County, Pennsylvania, and currently resides with his wife and beagle in Red Lion. Now retired, he was the Director of Technical Services for Lifetime Brands (the former Pfaltzgraff Company) since 2005. Although he grew up in York, both his parents and many of his relatives are from Marietta and Mount Joy in Lancaster County. Consequently, he spent many summers along the Susquehanna River at his grandparent’s house, exploring the river shore and the surrounding hills. After learning of a gravesite behind the Accomac Inn, his curiosity led him to research the Accomac ferry crossing, the town of Marietta,and the murder of Emily Myers at the hand of John Coyle, Jr. on Decoration Day, 1881. His love of local history inspired him to write his first book, Across the River, Murder at Accomac, released in 2012 for the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the borough of Marietta.  His second non-fiction book,  Rattlesnake Colonel Thomas Cresap - An American Paradox, is a detailed biography of Thomas Cresap's contradictory and often controversial life on the frontier. Cresap's life experiences in Pennsylvania and Maryland are used to narrate the complicated political and military conflicts of eighteenth-century Colonial America in a  comprehensive yet understandable way.