At one point in his life, Brian Tracey was a rocket scientist, a hockey player and a musician, depending on the time of day. Since then, he's been a global business development executive, the past president and a former board member of the Notre Dame Club of Dallas and, of course, a writer. He also somehow managed to have a CD of his music fly into space aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis during the program's final mission.

He served as the Chairman of the Dallas-Fort Worth Writers’ Conference or DFWCon, Texas's premier multi-genre writing conference. He's an active member and long-serving officer of the DFW Writers’ Workshop and a member of International Thriller Writers, serving as a volunteer in several capacities for ITW's annual conference, ThrillerFest. He's published business articles and white papers and his short stories have appeared in Suspense Magazine (written as Patrick J. McKnight).

PICKING UP THE PIECES, Book One of the Jigsaw Puzzle Cozy Mystery Series, which he’s written with Jeff Ayers as J.B. Abbott, will be published by Crooked Lane Books in the August of 2025.

He lives in Texas with his wife, two children, three cats and many rabbits who've claimed his yard as their own.