Paul Davis On Crime: My On Crime Fiction, True Crime & Thrillers Columns

From 2019 to 2025, I wrote the On Crime column for the Washington Times.

The newspaper column covered true crime, crime fiction and thrillers, and offered interviews with the crime book authors.

The Washington Times dropped my column and rarely covers books these days, so I’ve continued to cover books and interview authors here on my website.

Below are links to my On Crime Fiction, True Crime & Thrillers columns:

Paul Davis On Crime: My On Crime Fiction, True Crime & Thrillers Column On Tom Clavin's 'Vengeance: The Last Stand of Custer, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull'

Paul Davis On Crime: My On Crime Fiction, True Crime & Thrillers Column: My Q&A With Mark Lee Gardner, Author Of 'Brothers Of The Gun: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, And The reckoning In Tombstone'

Paul Davis On Crime: My On Crime Fiction, True Crime & Thrillers Column: Rereading Len Deighton's Reissued Spy Thrillers

Paul Davis On Crime: My On Crime Fiction, True Crime & Thrillers Column On David McCloskey's 'The Persian'

Paul Davis On Crime: My On Crime Fiction, True Crime & Thrillers Column: My Q&A With Ben Yagoda, The Author Of 'Alias O. Henry,' A Novel About The Late, Great Short Story Writer.

Paul Davis On Crime: My On Crime Fiction, True Crime & Thrillers Column: My Q&A With Michael Cannell, The Author Of 'Blood And The Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, And A Scandal That Shocked The Nation

Paul Davis On Crime: My On Crime Fiction, True Crime & Thrillers Column: My Q&A With Thomas Maier, The Author Of 'The Invisible Spy: Churchill’s Rockefeller Center Spy Ring And America’s First Secret Agent of WWII'

Paul Davis On Crime: Yesterday's Spy Writer: My On Crime Fiction, True Crime & Thrillers On The New Batch Of Len Deighton's Reissued Paperback Spy Thrillers

Paul Davis

Paul Davis is a writer who covers crime. He has written extensively about organized crime, cybercrime, street crime, white collar crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, the military, espionage and terrorism. His 'Crime Beat' column, which covers crime news, crime issues and crime prevention in South Philadelphia, appears weekly in the South Philly Review, and his 'On Crime' column, which covers crime in the Greater Philadelphia region, appears weekly at Philly Daily and Broad and Liberty. He is also a longtime contributor to Counterterrorism magazine and writes their online 'Threatcon' column, which covers crime, espionage and terrorism. Paul Davis' crime fiction appears in American Crime Magazine. His work has also appeared in the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Weekly and other publications. As a writer, he has attended police academy training, gone out on patrol with police officers, accompanied detectives as they worked cases, accompanied narcotics officers on drug raids, observed criminal court proceedings, visited jails and prisons, and covered street riots, mob wars and murder investigations. He has interviewed police commissioners and chiefs, FBI, DEA, HSI and other federal special agents, prosecutors, judges, public officials, WWII UDT frogmen, Navy SEALs, Army Delta operators, Israeli commandos, military intelligence officers, Scotland Yard detectives, CIA officers, former KGB officers, film and TV actors, film writers, directors and producers, journalists, novelists and true crime authors, gamblers, outlaw bikers, and Cosa Nostra organized crime bosses. Paul Davis has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17 in 1970. He served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War and he later served two years aboard the Navy harbor tugboat U.S.S. Saugus at the U.S. floating nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. He went on to become the civilian administrative officer of a Defense Department command in Philadelphia, where he oversaw security, safety and other programs for the command's military and civilian employees, and served as an investigating officer, while working part-time as a newspaper crime reporter and columnist. He retired in 2007 after more than 37 Navy/DOD years of service and became a full-time writer. From 1991 to 2005 he was a producer and on-air host of "Inside Government," a public affairs interview radio program that aired on Sunday mornings on WPEN AM and WMGK FM in the Philadelphia area. You can read Paul Davis' crime columns, crime fiction, book reviews and news and feature articles on this website. You can read his full bio by clicking on the above photo (by Brittany Davis-Pearson). And you can contact Paul Davis at pauldavisoncrime@aol.com.

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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

My On Crime Fiction, True Crime & Thrillers Columns

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