James Y. Bartlett is an award-winning American author.He is the author of the seven-novel Hacker Golf Mystery series, featuring the fictional golf writer Pete Hacker who covers the PGA Tour for a Boston newspaper and helps uncover the murders that seem to spring up wherever he goes.He has also written the popular Swamp Yankee Mystery series, set in the fictional town of Little Penwick, Rhode Island, the 'smallest town in the smallest state' in which the two alternating protagonists in the novels, Gus Haddock and his father Julius Haddock, the current and former chiefs of police, use police procedures as well as their small-town wiles to solve a series of criminal events.Bartlett's epic historical novel about the Highland Clearances in Scotland, Year of the Sheep, was a quarterfinalist in the BookLife (Publisher's Weekly) Novel of the Year in 2021, one of fifteen books shortlisted out of 940 submitted.He has also published several other novels as well as a half dozen books of nonfiction in his career.Bartlett lives in Rhode Island with his wife Susan.