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COPS WRITING CRIME - Another 9 members join The Squad!

21/4/2019

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Another 9 colleagues join The Squad today, swelling its numbers to 164.
That's 164 cops and ex-cops (and some PIs) who have taken to writing crime fiction.  You won't get more realistic crime tales than those from this Squad!

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We have joining us today:
1.  Dennis Banahan - served over 30 years with the Chicago PD, and has written two crime novels so far.
2.  Wayne Zurl - served with the Suffolk County PD.  He has written several crime novels.
3.  George D. Shuman - served as an officer in Washington DC, and has written several crime novels.
4.  Jason E. Fort - still a serving officer, I believe in South Carolina.  A number of novels to his name.
5.  Gerald Petievich - one of our "related cop" cousins, he served in the US Secret Service.  He has written several crime novels, and has had some turned into movies.
6.   Marc Goodman - served as a police officer (unsure where in the US) and with the FBI. I found one crime novel by him, but he writes in other genres as well.
​7.  Merle Temple - served as a deputy sheriff (not sure where) and with the Bureau of Narcotics in the US.  He has written several crime novels, and he writes in other genres.
8.  Micki Browning - served with the Durango PD in Colorado.  She has written several crime novels.
9.  Peter Ritchie - our only non-American cousin in this Squad update, he served with the police in Scotland and in London, as well as Europol.  He has written a number of crime novels.

Our Squad now consists of:


83 American
41 British
10 Australian

9 Canadian
4 New Zealanders
3 Finnish
2 Dutch
2 Swedish
1 French
1 Bahamian
1 Norwegian
1 Italian
1 Czech
1 Russian
1 Hungarian
1 Spaniard
1 Pakistani
​1 Irish


I'll keep adding more as I come across them, and if you know of any others please feel free to drop me a line.

Check out The Squad:
Also: Cops Writing Crime
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And please remember, my list is only for CRIME FICTION - not all the true crime and/or memoir writing by cops and ex-cops that's out there (as good as so much of that is).
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​Cheers,
ABP
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PI Harry Kenmare - in his element in the USA!

20/4/2019

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Just a blog to showcase this superb photograph of my Harry books.  And isn't Harry well and truly in his element here?  Gun, booze, smokes, cuffs.  Just needs a naked lady to round it out.  This could easily be Harry's desk, but it's not Sydney, rather over the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
American crime writer, and fellow Switchblade veteran, Danny Sophabmisay, won the Harry books in the recent competition I ran in conjunction with Switchblade.
And he paid me back with this truly fantastic picture - Danny, you're a champion, mate.
I just love it, and so had to share it with you all.  I've added it to the "Works" page on my website as well.
Now I just hope Danny enjoys the books!
Cheers,
ABP


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A.B.Patterson - author talk at Cessnock Library - 13 June 2019

19/4/2019

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Another confirmed library talk for 2019.

Yes, back on the circuit with my new novel, Harry's Quest.

Heading up to the Hunter Valley for a morning in June and chatting with the good folk of Cessnock.  Last time I visited we had a big crowd there, so hoping I created a good enough impression that they all want to listen to me again!

Cessnock Library - Thursday 13 June 2019, starting at 10.30 a.m.

Hope to see you there for coffee, crime, and a chat.

Cheers,
ABP
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Book Launch for "My Name is Revenge" by Ashley Kalagian Blunt.

19/4/2019

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Last week I had the great pleasure of attending Ashley Kalagian Blunt's book launch of My Name is Revenge, at the Acre Eatery in Camperdown (great venue, by the way).
I'd met Ashley before through Writing NSW, and she joined us at the launch of Harry's Quest back in January.
Ashley signed my copy of My Name is Revenge with "From one crime author to another, best wishes."  And her debut novella is indeed a crime story, albeit with a very different angle.
It's based on true events - the assassination of the Turkish consul in Sydney in 1980 - but within a fictional narrative.  The novella is followed by some of Ashley's essays, all connected to the subject of the Armenian Genocide in 1915-1917.  This tragic chapter in the history of the Armenian people is not really well known, despite having the dubious honour of being the first modern genocide.  It is also officially denied by the Turkish regime, although they are hardly known for progressive values such as truth and liberty.

I'm going to be very interested to learn more about the Armenian Genocide through Ashley's writing, and getting to savour a new crime story at the same time.  I'll post a book review in due course.

You can find her website here.

And the photo below is a chocolate cake that Ashley had at the launch, the icing being a copy of her book cover! 

Cheers,
ABP

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Author talk at Waverley Library - 22 May 2019.

6/4/2019

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My first confirmed library talk for 2019.

Yes, back on the circuit with my new novel, Harry's Quest.

Had a great crowd last time I spoke at Waverley, so looking forward to meeting those local readers again.

Waverley Library (at Bondi Junction) - Wednesday 22 May 2019, starting at 7.00 p.m.

Hope to see you there.

Cheers,
ABP

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A.B.Patterson is bringing Harry to California!

4/4/2019

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Woo hoo!
Tickets now booked and paid for.
My first visit to the U.S.A. and I'm going to be joining an amazing lineup of fellow Switchblade authors for a reading at Skylight Books in Los Angeles on 28 June.
I'm also firming up to appear at the Noir at the Bar evening organised by Eric Beetner on 07 July.
I can't even begin to describe how exciting this is for me.  All these indie noir authors whom I've read with 
such enjoyment - and now I'm going to meet a whole lot of them.
Yeah, that is well worth the 15-hour flight across the Pacific!
And I'll be packing every spare bit of space in my luggage (and my partner's luggage) with copies of Harry's World and Harry's Quest.
​Cheers,
ABP

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"Bordertown" - gritty realistic Aussie crime writing from an ex-cop, Greg James.

2/4/2019

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From the ranks of my Cops Writing Crime Squad comes the debut novel from fellow Aussie ex-cop, Greg James.
​I added Greg to the Squad a while back, knowing he was well on the way to his first novel, and having had the honour of reading an earlier manuscript.
​We come from different Australian police forces, but we share an awful lot.  Not the least of which is we both now write crime fiction.  And we both want to tell stories about what we experienced. 
​See Greg's website.
Bordertown hit the shelves last month and I was thrilled to travel up to Queensland to join Greg for his book launch.  And as a bonus I met Australian country music artist Kevin Sullivan, also an ex-cop, performing at the launch before heading off to Nashville to do some recording.  See Kevin's website.
​I am very much looking forward to reading the final version of Bordertown, and I'll be blogging my review in due course.
​What I can tell you from my read of the manuscript is that this is cop realism at its very best: the cops, the local community, the social dynamics, the environment.  This is cop writing you can taste, smell, feel, and picture yourself there.  But then wish you couldn't.  Its that good, that visceral.
Grab yourself a copy.
Cheers,
ABP


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