Christopher G. Jones

Author Christopher G. Jones, Ph.D. goes under the pseudonym Topper Jones for his detective novels featuring surfing crime fighter Thaddeus Hanlon and his sassy partner Bri de la Guerra. All That Glisters—volume one in the series—released September 20, 2023, in print and e-book, published by The Wild Rose Press. Oceano Beach Bedlam, the second volume in the Hanlon & de la Guerra Mystery Series, released March 17, 2025. Book three is currently under development.

Before devoting himself full-time to writing, Jones worked in public accounting and consulting, and as a university professor teaching financial reporting, software development, and business communication. He is the co-author of four textbooks and over fifty professional journal articles. Other publishing credits include general interest newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, creative non-fiction, and children’s fiction.

Jones is a member of the Write On! St. George chapter of the League of Utah Writers, the International Thriller Writers, and an affiliate member of the Mystery Writers of America. To be close to his family, he makes his home in the southwestern desert rather than his native California, but every chance he gets, he treks the 450 miles to the Pacific Coast to get in a little “water therapy” and catch a few waves.