Welcome to the award-winning The Hill Country Authors Podcast. In this podcast, Hill Country resident Tom Fox visits with authors who live and write up the Texas Hill Country. In this episode, I visit with Mark Pryor, author of the recently released Die Around Sundown and the award-winning Hugo Marsten mystery series. Mark grew up in England but now lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three young children. He has one varied and interesting career, ranging from a newspaper reporter in Colchester, Essex, where he covered police and crime beats and international assignments. In 1994, he and his now wife moved to America, where he attended journalism school at the University of North Carolina and then law school at Duke University.
Mark spent sixteen years as an Assistant District Attorney with the Travis County DA’s office, where, as he told his kids when they were young, “I help catch bad guys.” Mark is now a partner at one of the top criminal defense firms in Austin, Cofer & Connelly. He practices criminal law, defending the rights of adults and juveniles charged with criminal offenses.
While writing mystery novels, he prosecuted a Mexican Mafia enforcer, murderers, rapists, and robbers. As he said, “By day, I solve crimes, and by night I commit them!”
Highlights of this podcast include:
· His journalistic career
· Covering foreign affairs from Northern Ireland to the Romanian Revolution
· Moving to America
· What got Mark into writing mysteries
· Life as a prosecutor
· Life as a defense lawyer
Resources
Mark Pryor’s author site
