Jeffrey D. Briggs, a writer and journalist, has been writing about the Seattle waterfront since he moved onto his sailboat over thirty years ago. He now lives on land with his wife and dog and can often be found on the shores of Puget Sound, wondering what secrets lie hidden beneath those cold waters.

Out of the Cold Dark Sea, his debut novel, is book one in the Waterfront Mystery series featuring Martha Whitaker. It was published in 2019.

Within a Shadowed Forest, book two in the series featuring Martha Whitaker, takes Martha and her friend James MacAuliffe to the Northshore of Lake Superior where they must discover who killed a young woman when they blew up MacAuliffe’s truck. Within a Shadowed Forest was published in 2020.

Over the past 30 years, Jeffrey has been exploring the Seattle waterfront and writing about it. He has published over 350 magazine articles in regional and national magazines, and been the editor of Pacific Yachting PNW.  He honed his writing and editing skills working as a writer and contributing editor for the Seattle-based 48° North and as a stringer for the Associated Press. He has published two nonfiction books, Confessions of a Liveaboard and SoundWatch: An Environmental Guide for Boaters, both now long out of print.

A long-time resident of Seattle, Washington, he took a detour in life and moved to Rochester, Minn., in 2011 where he became a biomedical science writer for Mayo Clinic, and got to preview all his future diseases. He also got to shovel many varieties of snow and experience his first Polar Vortex .

Realizing his mistake when he could no longer see out his office window because of snow drifts, he returned home to the Pacific Northwest in 2017, dropping anchor in Richmond Beach, a beachfront community just north of Seattle.