- Paul Bishop
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name = Paul Bishop
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placeofbirth =Los Angeles, CA ,USA
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department =Los Angeles Police Department
serviceyears = 1978 - present
rank = Sworn in as an Officer - 1978
- Detective Sergeant III
awards = Detective of the Year
Numerous citations
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laterwork = author, screenwriter, technical advisorPaul Bishop is an author who was born in and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. He currently is a high-ranking detective in the
Los Angeles Police Department with the current rank of Detective III, working in the West Bureau's sex crimes unit, and is an avid writer who has written and published several successful novels.LAPD career
Bishop is the lead detective investigating prominent sexually-based crimes throughout western Los Angeles. A thirty year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, Paul is currently the Commanding Officer of the Operations-West Bureau’s Sexual Assault Detail with responsibility for investigations in over twenty-five percent of the city, including Hollywood. His career includes over twenty years experience in the investigation of sexually-based crimes, including assault and rape. For the past eight years, his Sex Crimes Unit has had the highest number of arrests and crime clearance rate in the entire LAPD.
Writing Career and Critical Reception
The
Los Angeles Times has called Paul Bishop ‘the closest equivalent ofJoseph Wambaugh yet,’ and stated "Citadel Run" ‘could hardly be better.’ As a writer, Paul's byline has appeared in numerous national publications, and his short stories have been published in many anthologies. His previous novels include "Shroud of Vengeance", "Citadel Run", "Sand Against the Tide", and "Chapel of the Ravens". "Chalk Whispers" is the fourth novel in his "Fey Croaker" series, which includes "Kill Me Again", "Twice Dead", and "Tequila Mockingbird". He has also written feature film scripts and numerous episodic scripts for television.Books
Some of the novels Bishop has written are:
Series
Calico Jack Walker/Tina Tamiko
*Citadel Run (1988)
*Sand Against the Tide (1990)
*Dark of the Heart (1998)
*Pattern of Behavior: A Short Story Collection (2000)Ian Chapel
*Chapel of the Ravens (1991)
*Criminal Tendencies (1998)Other
*The Complete Works of Master P
*Gangsta-ology 101Fey Croaker
*Kill Me Again (1994)
*Twice Dead (1996)
*Tequila Mockingbird (1997)
*Chalk Wispers (2000)Novels
*Sins of the Dead (1994)
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