August 11, 2006 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors, has added its 82nd police author, Tom Basinski is a 35-year veteran of the Chula Vista Police Department who almost didn’t become a cop. When he was 18 years old Tom entered the seminary at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. While he earned a degree in English Literature, he never earned a Catholic priest’s collar. In 1969, after finishing college, Tom returned to his hometown where he joined the police department. In 1970, he traveled to California and joined the Chula Vista Police Department. Over the next 34 years, Tom would not only become a homicide detective but an acknowledged writer of true crime short stories.
While “No Good Deed” is his first book, over the years he has written over 125 true crime stories published in various pulp magazines. As a homicide detective and magazine writer Tom would meet a fellow police author and San Diego resident Joseph Wambaugh. Wambaugh who penned best sellers such as the "Onion Field," “The Blue Knight” and “Black Marble” inspired Tom to write “No Good Deed.”
Before he published his first book, Basinski has been a contributing editor of the award-winning Law Enforcement Quarterly, the publication of the San Diego District Attorney and San Diego Magazine. “No Good Deed” is a true crime story set in San Diego. The actual case took three years to solve and had many twists and turns on the road to the suspect’s conviction.
Police-Writers.com now lists 82 police authors and their 209 books in six categories.
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