Christopher H. Meehan

Christopher H. Meehan is a writer living in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of the Reverend Calvin Turkstra mysteries: Deadly Waters, Murder on the Grand, and Murder on Sacred Ground. Deadly Waters appears on the Library of Michigan’s Michigan Notable Books list. He also wrote the standalone novels Blood on the Bridge and Corky’s Story. He is working on a new novel and another Turkstra mystery!

Meehan was a newspaper reporter for the Grand Rapids Press and the Kalamazoo Gazette. He later spent many years writing for the communications office of the Christian Reformed Church in North America. His nonfiction includes Gathered at the River: Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Its People of Faith; Growing Pains: How Racial Struggles Changed a Church and School; Dante’s Dance: All for an Amen, written with Jackie Venegas; and Joining Jesus: Ordinary People at the Edges of the Church, written with Moses Chung.