BJ Bourg is a former professional boxer, a lifelong martial artist, and a thirty-year veteran of law enforcement. He has worked as a patrol cop, a detective, a detective sergeant, a police academy instructor, and the chief investigator for a district attorney’s office. He has been recognized numerous times throughout his career, including by receiving the Distinguished Service Medal, Certificates of Commendation for his work as a homicide detective, and by earning the Top Shooter award at an FBI Sniper School.

Bourg has investigated thousands of felony cases, ranging from burglaries to capital murders, and achieved a 100% arrest and conviction rate on every murder case he handled. He was also part of two separate prosecutorial teams who organized, prepared, and presented capital murder cases against a mother who murdered her children and a man who murdered a woman and her young daughters, resulting in sentences of life imprisonment and death, respectively.

As an instructor, Bourg provided training to thousands of law enforcement officers, snipers, SWAT members, citizens, and writers, covering a wide array of topics such as criminal investigations, mental preparation, cover and concealment, tactical movement, self-defense, firearms, and many others. He also wrote articles on such topics as report writing, fingerprinting, interrogations, and high-risk entries for Law and Order Magazine, Writer’s Digest, and Boys’ Life Magazine.

Bourg served nearly two decades on SWAT, founded his department’s sniper program, and served as sniper leader and trainer for almost ten years. He deployed as the primary sniper on numerous high-risk operations, including barricaded subjects, hostage rescue operations, and felony fugitive apprehensions, and he wrote numerous articles for Tactical Response Magazine that focused on sniper deployment, SWAT tactics, and officer survival.

Drawing upon his vast array of practical experience and in-depth training, Bourg turned to writing short mysteries in the late nineties. He later transitioned to novels and is currently working on the thirty-eighth book in the Clint Wolf Mystery Series, which features a police detective battling alligators, criminals, and his past tragedies as he works to solve the latest murder in the small town of Mechant Loup, Louisiana.

In addition to the long-running Clint Wolf series, Bourg is also the author of the London Carter Mystery Series, which features a no-nonsense sheriff’s detective and police sniper who will stop at nothing to bring violent criminals to justice, and a few other mystery novels. He is planning a mountain mystery series set in East Tennessee, where he now calls home.

Originally from Galliano, Louisiana, Bourg spent most of his life in the Mathews area. He never moved out of Lafourche Parish until 2020, when he retired from law enforcement and moved to Tellico Plains, Tennessee, where he now writes fulltime. When not writing, he can be found working out in the sun, exploring the mountains, or spending quality time with his wife, children, grandboys, and German shepherds. No matter what he’s doing, he’s always thinking of new and interesting ways to murder people.