Bruce Robert Coffin

Bruce Robert Coffin is an international bestselling novelist and short story writer. A retired police detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement, Bruce supervised all homicide and violent crime investigations for Maine's largest city. Following the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Bruce spent four years investigating counter-terrorism cases for the FBI, earning the Director's Award, the highest award a non-agent can receive. He is the author of the Detective Byron Mysteries, co-author of The Turner and Mosley Files (along with bestselling author LynDee Walker), and author of the Detective Justice Mysteries.

Winner of Killer Nashville's Silver Falchion Awards for Best Procedural and Best Investigator, and the Maine Literary Award for Best Crime Fiction Novel, Bruce was also a finalist for the Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel and the Barry Award for Best Paperback Original Mystery. His Anthony Award nominated short fiction appears in more than fifteen anthologies, including Best American Mystery Stories 2016.

Bruce is a member of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Short Mystery Fiction Society, and the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.

Bruce is represented by Paula Munier at Talcott Notch Literary Services.

He lives and writes in Maine.