Peter Colt, author of The Off-Islander and Back Bay Blues

We are pleased to welcome mystery author Peter Colt on Wednesday evening, June 16th, at 7 p.m., for a Zoom presentation by the Falmouth Public Library! He will talk about his writing process, and his two P.I. Andy Roark novels, The Off-Islander and Back Bay Blues, one of which takes place on Nantucket. You can register to get the Zoom link by clicking here, or contact the Reference Department at 

As Publishers’ Weekly wrote about Back Bay Blues: “Colt’s excellent second hard-boiled mystery featuring Boston PI Andy Roark (after 2019’s The Off-Islander) finds Roark, a Vietnam War vet still traumatized by his combat experiences… Colt makes his wounded lead sympathetic, and balances a gripping plot with further development of Roark’s character.” 

Peter Colt is an Iraq War veteran, a New England law enforcement officer and an FBI certified Crisis Negotiator. He spent over twenty years in the Army reserve and was deployed to Kosovo in 2000 and to Iraq in 2003 and again in 2008, and has had the fortune of knowing many Vietnam vets and U.S. Army Special forces soldiers. Born in Boston, he grew up on Nantucket and lived there in the 1970’s and 80’s. He currently lives in Rhode Island.