John Hansen

John Hansen writes from a colorful and varied background. He is currently a private investigator in Washington State and Arizona. Since 1992 his cases have taken him to Northern Europe and Russia, New York and Alaska, Mexico and Guatemala, and the Caribbean. Between 1970 and 1991 he was nicknamed "Mad Dog" by his peers for his aggressiveness in Patrol, and "Bull Dog" by his peers in the Detective Division for his tenacity at unraveling complex cases. Before becoming a cop, John served two tours of duty as a Gunners Mate on a WWII vintage amphibious assault ship, plying the rivers and coastal waters of South Vietnam, often on lone missions.

John's writing career began in 2009 after he lost his wife of twenty-eight years to cancer. He wrote Song of the Waterwheel as a tribute to her and the marriage he lost, a loss that almost destroyed him. Returning to law enforcement in a limited capacity with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Posse, doing search-and-rescue work on horseback in the Arizona desert helped him become grounded again.

After Song of the Waterwheel, readers urged John to write from his vast experiences, advice that has led to several award-winning and published fiction short stories and essays, depicting detective work and mounted action in the desert. The Bluesuit Chronicles is an historical fiction series of young Vietnam veterans returning to a different America than the ones they left, and becoming police officers. Of course, the names have been changed, to protect the guilty AND the innocent.