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Bruce Robert Coffin, author talk

Bruce Robert Coffin, author talk In-Person

Maine author of the award-winning Detective Byron Mysteries, and others. 

Date:
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Time:
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Meeting Room
Audience:
  Adults  
Categories:
  Author Talks  
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Bruce Robert Coffin is the award-winning author of the Detective Byron Mysteries, co-author of The Turner and Mosley Files along with bestselling author LynDee Walker, and author of the forthcoming Detective Justice Mysteries. A former detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement, he 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.

Winner of Killer Nashville's Silver Falchion Awards for Best Procedural, 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 Anthony Award nominated short fiction appears in more than a dozen anthologies, including Best American Mystery Stories 2016.

Bruce is a member of International Thriller WritersMystery Writers of AmericaSisters in CrimeShort Mystery Fiction Society, and the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. He is a contributor to the Murder Books blog.

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