After retiring, he wrote what he thought would be his first and only novel. Three years later, he is the author of the Kim Jansen Detective Series. His debut novel, Bloody Paws—The Plight of the Homeless Human Strays, was the winner of a Maxy Award for best mystery novel of 2021. Bloody Pages—Haunted by a Family Secret (2022), deals with intergenerational violence. Book 3 in the series, Bloody Feathers—Death of the Cardinal (2023), focuses on exotic bird poaching and rare bird species preservation.