Bruce Robert Coffin is the award-winning author of the Detective Byron Mysteries, The Turner and Mosley Files, and the Detective Justice novels. Former detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement, he is the 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. His short fiction appears in a number of anthologies, including Best American Mystery Stories 2016. Bruce lives and writes in Maine.