Bruce Robert Coffin

Bruce Robert Coffin is the award-winning author of the Detective Byron mystery series and former detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement. At the time of his retirement, from the Portland, Maine police department, he supervised all homicide and violent crime investigations for Maine’s largest city. Following the terror attacks of September 11th, Bruce spent four years working counter-terrorism with the FBI, earning the Director’s Award, the highest honor a non-agent can receive.

Bruce is currently collaborating on The Turner and Mosley Files series with bestselling author LynDee Walker, and working on the forthcoming Detective Justice mystery series (November of 2025).

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. An Anthony Award nominated short fiction writer, his stories have been published in more than a dozen anthologies including Best American Mystery Stories 2016.

“Authentic and gripping.” — Joseph Wambaugh, bestselling author of The Onion Field

“The Detective Byron mystery series is one of the finest to arrive in a long time.” —#1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston

New York Times Bestselling Author Gayle Lynds called Among the Shadows, “A first rate novel. Suspenseful and highly entertaining.”

Award-winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan had this to say about Beneath the Depths, “Terrific! Fast-talking, smart, and cinematic, this entertaining page-turner is so knowingly authentic only a genuine cop turned storyteller could have written it.”

New York Times Bestselling Author Reed Farrel Coleman called Beyond the Truth, “A superbly realistic, tense, and exciting novel.”

“Flawless prose, witty dialogue, startling twists. Authenticity seeps from every page. Unforgettable.” — K.J. Howe, internationally bestselling author of Skyjack

“I rank Coffin among the luminaries of the genre - right beside Wambaugh, McBain, and John Ball.” — LA Times bestselling author Baron R. Birtcher

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. He is a regular blog contributor to Murder Books blog.

He lives and writes in Maine.