Jerry Aylward is a retired detective with thirty-two years of service with the Nassau County (NY) Police Department. He served another ten years in federal law enforcement with the United States Department of Homeland Security as a criminal investigator with the OCSO at a high-level, secret, government research facility. Jerry has a bachelor’s degree in behavioral science from NYIT. His nonfiction publications begin with a pictorial history of the Nassau County Police (NY) Department, followed by the true crime Francis “Two Gun” Crowley’s Killings in New York City & Long Island, and his latest true crime, Murder on the Gold Coast. Jerry’s first mystery novel was “The Scarlet Oak”.