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COPS WRITING CRIME - Another 5 Squad members!

29/9/2017

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The ongoing project to discover cops or ex-cops who have taken to writing crime fiction - The Squad as I've named us!
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Some sleuthing work on my part, and there are an increasing number of authors to look at.  Holidays are giving me some good research time, that's for sure!


Today, I've added another 5 new members to the permanent index for The Squad on my website.
A complete new national addition - 1 from The Bahamas, Wayne Elliott.  The other 4 are all from the US - Mike Worley, Barry Ozeroff (still a serving officer), Joe Hefferon, and Donald Harstad.

It now numbers 35 in total:


16 American, 10 British, 6 Australian, 1 French, 1 Canadian, and 1 Bahamian.

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

And please remember, my list is only for CRIME FICTION - not all the true crime and memoir writing by cops and ex-cops that's out there.
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​Cheers,
ABP
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COPS WRITING CRIME - 3 more members of The Squad!

28/9/2017

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The ongoing project to discover cops or ex-cops who have taken to writing crime fiction - The Squad as I've named us!
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Some sleuthing work on my part, and there are an increasing number of authors to look at.


Today, I've added another 3 new members to the permanent index for The Squad on my website - all from the UK this time:  Richard Allen, Joan Lock, and Paul Grzegorzek.

It now numbers 30 in total:


12 American, 10 British, 6 Australian, 1 French, and 1 Canadian.

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

And please remember, my list is only for CRIME FICTION - not all the true crime and memoir writing by cops and ex-cops that's out there.
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​Cheers,
ABP
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Cops Writing Crime - more members of The Squad!

26/9/2017

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More of my ongoing project to discover cops or ex-cops who have taken to writing crime fiction - The Squad as I've named us!

I've added another 3 new members to the permanent index for The Squad on my website:  Roger Pearce (UK), Don Easton (CANADA), and Rosanna Filippello (USA).

It now numbers 27 in total: 12 American, 6 Australian, 7 British, 1 French, and 1 Canadian.

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

You won't get better realistic crime writing.
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​Cheers,
ABP
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Cops Writing Crime - 3 new members in The Squad! Now there are 24 of us.

21/9/2017

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I've previously blogged about my ongoing project to discover cops or ex-cops who have taken to writing crime fiction - The Squad as I've named us!

I've added 3 new members to the permanent index for The Squad on my website: Gregory James (AUS), Darryl Donaghue (UK), and Mark Andrews (AUS).

It now numbers 24 in total: 11 American, 6 Australian, 6 British, and 1 French.


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

You won't get better realistic crime writing.
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​Cheers,
ABP
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"Switchblade" magazine - A new outing for PI Harry Kenmare!

20/9/2017

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I'm very excited to have been selected for publication in the upcoming issue of Switchblade magazine out of the US!
It's a first on a number of levels for me:
  • My first Harry short story.
  • My first short story published in an anthology.
  • And this Harry is written in the first person, so a rather different take - all from Harry's point of view.  Still good old Harry, of course, with all his loveable flaws and bad habits.
Switchblade Issue 3 will be out late September/early October.
You can find it on Amazon.  I'll put out the direct link when it's available.
So, if you want to read Harry in the first person, grab yourself a copy.
Cheers,
ABP
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A reading treat for all Francophiles - "Beginning French" by Les Américains.

5/9/2017

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​To be completely transparent, I am a complete Francophile and love reading books about people living there, old houses in the country, and the French way of life. Sometimes those writing such books don't do the narrative justice. No such problem here from Les Américains (a.k.a. Eileen McKenna and Marty Neumeier).

Well, I loved it! The depiction of living in the Dordogne with all the trials and tribulations of an old farmhouse, along with the French way of doing things, is wonderful, and thanks to the lovely prose, Eileen and Marty's story is a pleasure to read. And I should mention their daughter, Sara, a chef, who features in the book and has included a dozen recipes from the region - looking forward to trying my hand at some of them, too.

From the book comes one of the most lovely of quotes I've ever read about the south of France:
"...the sun was low in the sky and the landscape had turned green and gold with long purple shadows. Vineyards and wheat farms alternated with clumps of forest, and wide expanses of sunflowers gave off an intense yellow light collected from the long summer day. We had never seen such beautiful farms. There were pale amber and tan colored houses with stone walls and clay tile roofs..." (p.25)

For Francophiles this is a must read!  Thank you Eileen and Marty.
Cheers, 
ABP

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