Few thrillers set at the Jersey Shore are as gripping and engaging as those by South Jersey native and retired Iowa surgeon Daniel J. Waters. Meet this award-winning author during a Stafford branch of the Ocean County Library Friends Adventure and book signing on Thursday, May 2 at 10 a.m.

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey alumnus began publishing his writings in 1981. During his 30-year career as a heart surgeon, Waters provided fiction and nonfiction works, essays, medical…