Follow the adventures of the CSI consultants as they battle 21st-century problems like artificial intelligence, environmental issues, and the ethics of gene editing, among other new matters. Investigate the ramifications of letting AI decide loan applications, prison sentences, and drone targets; if a computer is doing it, what could go wrong? Why has architecture become hostile? Cow burps really are more damaging to the planet than you thought. Whales are better for the planet than you thought. Rat snakes aren't the bad guys anymore. Dickens characters were among the first recyclers. A filled diaper is loaded with plastics. Cobalt mining ? the next frontier. Why our Outer Space Treaty is starting to mean something. Armadillos have migrated as far north as North Carolina; will they soon be in your backyard? Attack of the Stinkbugs ? a modern-day horror tale. All the above and more are tackled by our CSI heroes.

Richard Hughes closed his 24-seat safety training center on Cape Cod to become a retired student of modern worldwide shipping operations. He graduated from Massachusetts Maritime Academy with a B.S. in Marine Transportation, then obtained a Masters Degree in Business from Lesley University. While at MMA, he sailed on the Bay State, the CV Lightning, and the TS Mobil Lube.

His books include Bringing Down the Safety Guy, Deep Sea Dominoes (a print version of SeaBlameworthiness), and the Cape Safety, Inc. - Danger Dogs Series--a collection of novels detailing the exciting lives of a top-notch safety consulting firm based out of Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

He and his wife have written seven screenplays entitled Cape Car Blues, Freeport Fred's Valiant Summer, Golf Cart Ranger, Plimsoll, Training Ship, What We Can't Know, and Get Together. He is also the co-author, along with his wife Lavinia, of a novel entitled Newtucket - the Rising, and their latest novel, Training Ship.

He lives and writes in the seaside village of Waquoit, MA, with his wife Lavinia M. Hughes.