MARK BERGIN

Mark Bergin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and earned a degree in Journalism from Boston University. He spent four years as a newspaper reporter, winning the Virginia Press Association Award for general news reporting, before joining the Alexandria, Virginia Police Department in 1986. He was twice named Police Officer of the Year for narcotics and robbery investigations and retired in 2014 after serving in most of the posts described in Apprehension, his award-winning first novel in the John Kelly Series.

Bergin’s short stories are published in several crime anthologies, including the Anthony-nominated Paranoia Blues, Land of Ten Thousand Thrills, and Scattered, Smothered, Covered and Chunked, as well as The Tattered Blue Line and The Eviction of Hope.

Bergin is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Public Safety Writers Association, Virginia Writers Club, and International Thriller Writers. He and his wife live in Alexandria, Virginia and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.