Quintin
Peterson is the author of several plays and screenplays. He is a native Washingtonian. As a junior high school student, he
attended the Corcoran School of Art on a scholarship. While still in high school, he was honored with the University of Wisconsin’s
Science Fiction Writing Award and the National Council of Teachers of English Writing Award. Upon receiving the Wisconsin
Junior Academy’s Writing Achievement Award, his name was included in Who’s Who Among American High School
Students of 1975. As an undergraduate communications major at the University of Wisconsin,
he wrote and performed in two plays for stage and videotape and received a Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation grant for his
play project, Change. A National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship and a playwriting grant from the DC Commission
on the Arts and Humanities followed. Subsequently, two of his radio plays were aired on WPFW-FM Pacifica Radio as productions
of the Minority Arts Ensemble’s Radio Drama Workshop ’79. Mr. Peterson is a 24-year-veteran police officer
with the Metropolitan Police Department and is currently assigned to its Office of Public Information as a media liaison officer.
He is also a liaison between the department and members of the motion picture and television industries, acting as a script
consultant and technical advisor. He is a contributor to the crime fiction anthology D.C. Noir, edited by George Pelecanos,
and is an Active Member of the Mystery Writers of America. He is the creator of 'Jacob "Doc" Holloway',
police officer in Washington D.C.
Quintin Peterson was
most recently featured as a contributor to From Shadows and Nightmares. He contributed
the short story Round Midnight. According to the book description of From
Shadows and Nightmares, “Travel through the darkest shadows and twisted thoughts of a group of talented
authors. From the traditional werewolf to an ancient curse to brain eating zombies, the authors' imagination will make you
squirm in your seat. Your stomach will clench as you read one, and then you will question just how depraved
our fellow human beings can be as you read another. The talent gathered in this latest addition to the
Nightfall Publication anthologies present to you spine-tingling, blanket clutching stories, all brought to life from their
own Shadows and Nightmares.” More information about the book is available from the publisher here.
According to the book description of The Wages of Sin,
“D.C. Police Officer Jacob "Doc" Holloway was recruited to work as a narcotics undercover operative for the
federally funded Janus Project, working in conjunction with federal law enforcement agencies' entire Special Investigations
Network (SIN). Eighteen months later, he discovered that he had merely been a pawn of corrupt government and law enforcement
officials seeking to eliminate their competition and ensure the continued success of their own criminal enterprises. Now
Doc Holloway has vowed to bring down these corrupt individuals and to see to it that they reap what they have sown. The
wages of sin is death.”
According to the book description of
Sin, When street gangs murder his wife, Senator Grunwald enlists the SIN--Special Investigations Network--to
stop the gangs, the drugs and the violence.”
According to the story description
of A Dark Place, This is the story of a serial killer and the homicide detective tasked to track
him down, told by someone who knows police work and how it affects the psyche over time. The hunter and the hunted, each in
his own way, have descended into darkness, which is why I chose the painting for the “cover” artwork for this
dark tale - it could be the face of the killer of the cop. In actuality, it is a self-portrait I painted when I was in the
police academy some twenty-five years ago.”
Quintin Peterson said of The
Kingsley Affair, “Usually, my crime stories are hardcore and very dark, essentially because of my experiences
as a police officer. Although The Kingsley Affair is a dark tale, it is lighter than the kinds of stories I'm known for.
Consider it my homage to Alfred Hitchcock, who made murder so much fun.”
According to the book description of
Bad Cop, No Donut: Tales of Police Behaving Badly, “in this book you will find: Good Cops gone bad; Bad Cops gone worse; Police in the city; Sheriffs on
the hunt; Cops on the beach; Cops on the take; Fights to the death; Ninjas and nunchuckas; Hookers and dealers; Good guys
and bad guys And the Devil's own cop. featuring the talents of: - James Chambers - Gary Lovisi - O'Neil De Noux - Quintin
Peterson - C. J. Henderson - Michael A. Black - Ron Fortier - Patrick Thomas - Michael Berish - Vincent H. O'Neil - Austin
S. Camacho - Wayne D. Dundee - John L. French - Art Monterastelli - James Grady "A ride-around with some of the best
cops and best cop writing in the business!" -David Black, author of The Extinction Event & writer for CSI Miami &
Law & Order. "Bad Cop, No Donut includes some of the most riveting stories I have read to date. It's a top-notch
crime fiction anthology." - Donald Bain, author of the "Murder, She Wrote" series.”
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