Paul Davis
Paul Davis has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17 in 1970 and served on an aircraft carrier during the Vietnam War. He performed security work as a young sailor and later as a Defense Department civilian employee.
As a writer he has covered crime for newspapers, magazines, and Internet publications. He has gone out on patrol with police officers and he has covered street riots, mob wars, murders, and major drug investigations. He has also visited jails and prisons, observed criminal court proceedings, and interviewed police commanders, detectives, federal agents, prosecutors, criminals, and crime victims. More biographical details are here.
Davis is a lifelong reader of crime fiction and thrillers and he considers them to be an art form. He believes they are like the blues and jazz to literary fiction’s classical music.
He has reviewed books for the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International, GreatHistory.com, and other print and online publications. Davis has also published crime fiction.
He writes a column for When Falls the Coliseum called “On Crime and Thrillers,” which includes book reviews of true crime, crime fiction, and thrillers; Q & A interviews with crime and thriller writers; and his original crime fiction.
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