Protagonist Danny Beckett is a homicide detective, working in the Long Beach Police Department, based in Long Beach upon California. The featured protagonist in the aforementioned series is Danny Beckett. Published in 2012, this is the second book in the Long Beach Homicide series. Nonetheless, the first edition of the first book in the said series was originally published in 2009, titled A King of Infinite Space, and the series is shelved as crime, mystery, thriller, and detective fiction genres.Īnother early book by Tyler Dilts is The Pain Scale. There are a few editions of the first book. His debut book is the first novel in the serialized Long Beach Homicide. To make it more believable and authentic, he consulted real-life policemen. Later on in life, Dilts kick started his writing aspirations by teaching himself about the justice system and studying books on police procedures.

By then he merely wanted to have a grasp on whom and what his father was. His father, who constantly supplied Dilts with the much yearned police stories, sparked his son’s interest in the police procedural genre. Tyler Dilts, whose father doubled up as a detective among other related occupations, was prompted to start writing by his penchant for juicy police stories. For his postgraduate studies, Dilts studied English Literature. Incidentally, for his undergraduate studies, Dilts pursued Acting and Directing, before a close friend encouraged him to study English Literature and Creative Writing. Tyler Dilts would have become a law enforcer just like his father, who was a Los Angeles-based undersheriff, were it not for chancing upon theater when he went to college. He is currently a lecturer at California State University.

He has also co-author an anthology with a group of award-winning scribblers most notably Gary Philips. Tyler Dilts, who was born in Los Angeles, in the US, was greatly influenced by American authors James Lee Burke, Michael Connelly, Lawrence Block, and Ed McBain. Initially angling for a career in the police service like his late father before a godsend last-minute career switch while in college, Tyler Dilts is an American man of letters with several critically-acclaimed novels under his belt.

A King of Infinite Space by Tyler Dilts