DAVID CARL MIELKE
Born and raised in Muskegon, Michigan, DAVID CARL MIELKE now lives near Mount Dora,
Florida on One Mielke Way, home of "One Diabetic Grandpa, One Sweet Grandma, One Candy-
assed Dog and One Sour Puss.” A graduate of the University of Michigan, he is a Chartered Life
Underwriter and retired after 33 years as an agent with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Company in Boca Raton, Florida. While in Boca, he served on the boards of many charitable
organizations, including a year as president of the local Rotary Club and seven years as
chairman of the District Ambassadorial Scholarship Committee,
which raised and awarded over $500,000 to Rotary International scholars.
Mr. Mielke’s first novel, A DISH BEST SERVED COLD, is a story of creative revenge, non-stop action
and laugh-out-loud humor with a 1970s Central Florida setting. It has garnered favorable reviews
from multiple editors, the Library Journal, and was the national 2010 winner of the Reader Views
"Reviewers Choice Award." His sequel titled A NATION BEST SERVED HOT has also won national
acclaim -- the 2010 "Great American Author Award." He has just completed the third novel in the
Lena Mills Trilogy –EXECUTIVE DECEIT, which is now available. David’s writing style has been
described as “Carl Hiaasen on steroids.”
"His talent as an author is only exceeded by his creative imagination." -- JOHN AUSTIN, "BOOK TALK, "WTAN RADIO 1340 AM
