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Crime fiction and other police
procedurals
March 27, 2007 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a
website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored
books, added three writers of crime fiction.
Robert Ruble quit high school to join the
United States Marine Corps (USMC), where he was
hoping for Korea, but instead was selected to be a Drill Instructor at
Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD), San Diego.
Later he changed his specialty to Tank Crewman. He left the
Marine Corps and joined the Tampa Police
Department. After a few years as a police officer he re-enlisted in the
Marine Corps and served a 20 year career,
including two tours in Vietnam.
After retirement from the USMC, he worked for a variety of
law enforcement agencies culminating his law enforcement career as the Chief of
Police of the
Kennesaw Police Department (Georgia). He was
their chief from 1980 through 1986. He has written two thrillers - Have
No Mercy and Black Rosebud: Have No Mercy II
George Galjan was born in 1942 in Berlin,
Germany. In 1956, he immigrated to the United States with his family. After high
school, he enlisted in the
Navy. He served two tours in Vietnam and later
transferred to the
Navy Reserves. He retired from the Reserves
with the rank of senior chief. In 1969, George Galjan joined the
Cleveland Police Department. He retired in
1998, at the rank of lieutenant.
George Galjans book, Cops, Donuts and
Murder, is a mystery set in the City of Cleveland. As one
reviewer/reader remarked, This is the best mystery book I've read for quite
sometime. It is filled with twists and interesting characters. The ending was a
total surprise. The book is written using dialog and it is so true-to-life that
I couldn't put it down.
Earl Kratzer is a retired Detective Sergeant
from the
Cleveland Police Department. During his career
he worked on a number of interesting cases and is the recipient of the Rotary
Valor Award for Heroism Beyond the Call of Duty. His book, My Baby, My
Baby, is a classic police procedural that follows a fictional account
of a child abduction that is set in Cleveland, Ohio. The twists and turns that
develop while the detectives are investigating this case, show the reader what
actually occurs while following leads a criminal investigation.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 417 police officers
(representing 182
police departments) and their 891
books in six categories, there are also
listings of United States federal law enforcement employees turned authors,
international police officers who have written
books and civilian police personnel who have
written
books.
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