New novel and old passion for cop-turned-writer Joe Wambaugh

Peter Rowe at The San Diego Union-Tribune offers an interesting piece on Joseph Wambaugh, the Los Angeles Police Department detective who went on to become a best-selling author.

Wambaugh, who has written classic police novels like The Choirboys and classic true crime books like The Onion Field, has written a new novel called Hollywood Hills.

You can read the newspaper story via the below link:

http://www.sduniontribune.com/news/2010/nov/28/joseph-wambaugh-new-novel-and-old-passion-for-cop/

You can also read my review of Joe Wambaugh's last novel, Hollywood Moon, and link to my interview with him, via the below link:

http://pauldavisoncrime.blogspot.com/2009/12/joseph-wambaughs-hollywood-moon-is.html