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 Tom Basinski, author of NO GOOD DEED (Berkley Crime Books), is a 35-year veteran police
officer who almost didn’t become a cop. At St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, he was in the seminary
from age 18-23. He earned a degree in English Literature but never earned a Catholic priest’s collar. Instead, he turned to crime—crime busting! His police career began in 1969, in his hometown of Flint, Michigan. He left there in 1970 to work for Chula Vista, California, a suburb city south of San Diego. NO GOOD DEED is his first book, but over the years he has written over 125 true crime stories published in various pulp magazines.
Basinski launched his professional writing career while still a homicide detective for the Chula Vista, California Police Department. Along the way, he met San Diego resident Joe Wambaugh, the retired cop who penned best sellers like the "Onion Field" and the Black Marble. Wambaugh’s success inspired
Basinski to branch out into books. 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. It took three years to solve and has many twists and turns on the road to conviction. The book is scheduled for release by Berkley True Crime Books May 3, 2006. Tom and his wife, Judy, have two grown sons. They live in
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