Adam Plantinga

Jan 11, 2024 | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Adam Plantinga |Jessica Zack

San Francisco police Sgt. Adam Plantinga placed his debut novel, “The Ascent,” in a prison setting. Photo: Lea Suzuki/The ChronicleWhen San Francisco police sergeant and author Adam Plantinga told a fellow officer in the Mission Station that he had a new book coming out in January, “the guy had a classic cop response,” Plantinga recalled, with deadpan humor. “He asked if it was a picture book.”Hardly.

Jan 6, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Adam Plantinga

Detroit police officer Kurt Argento hasn’t been the same since his beloved wife, Emily, died from cancer. Or, rather, perhaps he’s been too much the same, too prone to the violence and impulsiveness that were his weaknesses before he met her. But this time, when he recklessly takes on a fight with some perps, needlessly risking both his and his partner’s safety, not even his loyalty to the Detroit police force --- a relationship extending across generations --- is enough to salvage his career.

Jan 2, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Doug Brunt |Adam Plantinga

Adam Plantinga: Coffee, blackAward-winning author and San Francisco cop Adam Plantinga talks about the differences between vacation problems (getting sunscreen on his daughters) and work problems (getting charged by a criminal wielding a butcher knife), the favorite and most influential books he’s read, how humor can be an important tool on the job (both jobs), his debut novel The Ascent, and one thing he wants the public to know about law enforcement.

Oct 26, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Adam Plantinga |Cora Harrison |Ally Wilkes |Keigo Higashino

Stig Abell. HarperCollins, $18.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-063381-07-0Abell (How Britain Really Works), former editor of the Times Literary Supplement, makes his fiction debut with this impressive mystery about a London DI who’s dragged out of early retirement. Det. Insp. Jake Jackson’s uncle Arthur has died, leaving Jackson a large estate in a remote slice of the British countryside, plus enough money to live on without working.

Oct 6, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Adam Plantinga |Max Brooks |Stephen King

A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006). A zombie apocalypse is one thing.