Christopher Thomas

My dad is the reason I write. He wasn't a writer by trade, he fixed cars. My father learned to be a mechanic in my Uncle Tony's garage in Hartford, Connecticut during the depression. He went on to fight in World War Two. Once he returned home, he met and married my mother and started a family. At night he told me stories about the little boy factory and Archibald Popscaluski. He made Archibald up and factories and as I grew up, his stories always stayed with me. My dad was a master storyteller and that's what inspired me to write.

The latest book in the Bruce Westman series is called Missing. This is loosely based off of a case in Houston, Texas. A 15-year-old girl stepped off her school bus and was never seen again. As a retired police officer, this story touched my heart so much that I wrote and dedicated a story to her. My private investigator, Bruce Westman, is hired by a mother whose daughter has been missing for 16 years. She hires Bruce because she is dying of cancer and wishes to see her child before she dies.