Twisted Deception: A Novel

Gene Ligotti was educated at Adelphi University on Long Island and received his doctorate from New York University. Severe rheumatoid arthritis prevented Ligotti from continuing his successful thirty-year practice of dentistry in Huntington, New York. After he retired, Ligotti began writing as just something to do, but it soon became a driving force. He is an American Revolutionary history buff, has given lectures about the impact the Revolution had on Long Island, and has written three novels about interesting characters in the American Revolution. Ligotti is also the author of the much-applauded Time Never Heals, a biography of a First Battalion surgeon in Vietnam. He soon began writing suspense thrillers, which has become his special passion. Each suspense thriller has a love story as a subplot, but Twisted Deception, the sequel to the much-acclaimed Incredible Deception, continues as a love story with the suspense thriller element as the subplot. As a freelance writer, he wrote a monthly column for the Guide Magazine about the history of villages in the Catskill Mountains and of the romantic Hudson River. His widely praised articles on dentistry have been printed in various dental journals. Gene Ligotti lives in Smithtown, New York, with his wife, Corbina, where they can be near their daughters, Gina and Lisa, and their grandchildren: grandson Gino and twin granddaughters, Gabrielle and Juliette.