Collision Course
Where the law and the street meet head-on, Detective Lt. Josh Williams has to pick a lane.
Crime fiction, true crime and fantasy
Stories forged
in truth.
Joe Broadmeadow spent twenty years with the East Providence Police Department, rose to captain and commanded its detectives. Now he writes it down, with the detail of someone who stood at the scene.
- 20 yearsEast Providence Police
- CaptainRetired, commanded detectives
- Since 2019JEBWizard Publishing
The author
Most crime fiction is imagined. His was lived.
Joe joined the East Providence Police Department in 1978 and spent the next twenty years working its streets and its cases.
He commanded the Investigative Services Division and served on the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force alongside the FBI and DEA. He retired in 1998 as a captain. That is why his procedure is right, and why the moral lines in his books blur the way they do in real cases.
He always wrote, sending pieces to newspapers and magazines while still on the job. After retiring, and with a push from his wife, Susan, he started writing books in earnest.
Joins the East Providence Police Department.
Commands the Investigative Services Division and works with the FBI and DEA on the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.
Retires as a captain after twenty years of service.
Walks the entire Appalachian Trail, Georgia to Maine.
Founds JEBWizard Publishing in Warren, Rhode Island, to publish new and emerging authors.
Writes novels and true crime, plus commentary that has appeared in the Providence Journal, the Boston Globe and Rhode Island Current.
Off the job
He grew up in Cumberland, Rhode Island, where he and his friends dug for diamonds on Diamond Hill. That hill became the setting for The Last Dragon. He is a Cumberland High School graduate, a grandfather (the picture books are for his grandchildren), and his short stories appear in the anthologies Run and Scream.
Crime fiction
The Josh Williams novels
Detective Lt. Josh Williams, East Providence PD. Cold cases, hot tempers and a city that keeps its secrets. Keep scrolling to turn the shelf.Swipe the cards to turn the shelf.
Legal thriller
Hawk Bennett, for the defense
A former Green Beret who became a defense lawyer. He knows how to fight, and he knows the system can be stacked. In A Change of Hate he takes a case that puts him beside a Buddhist monk who is carrying secrets.
True crime
Told by the people who were there.
Books written with insiders from both sides of the badge, including some of the most candid accounts of the New England mob in print.
- It’s Just the Way It Was
- Choices
- UnMade
Young adult fantasy
The Last Dragon trilogy
As a boy, Joe dug for diamonds on Diamond Hill in Cumberland, Rhode Island. Decades later that hill became home to the last dragon. Different genre, same instinct for suspense.
- Saving the Last Dragon
- Raising the Last Dragon
- Defending the Last Dragon
From the trail
Spirit of the Trail
2,185miles, Georgia to Maine
In 2014 Joe walked the entire Appalachian Trail. This book grew out of those months on foot: a man who spent a career reading people, alone with his own thoughts.
The shelf
Every book, in one place.
- Collision Course Josh WilliamsCollision Course
- Silenced Justice Josh WilliamsSilenced Justice
- Pieces of the Past Josh WilliamsPieces of the Past
- Buried Verdicts Josh WilliamsBuried Verdicts
- Improbable Cause Josh WilliamsImprobable Cause
- A Change of Hate Hawk BennettA Change of Hate
- It’s Just the Way It Was True crimeIt’s Just the Way It Was
- Choices True crimeChoices
- UnMade True crimeUnMade
- Saving the Last Dragon The Last DragonSaving the Last Dragon
- Raising the Last Dragon The Last DragonRaising the Last Dragon
- Defending the Last Dragon The Last Dragon, coming soonDefending the Last Dragon
- Spirit of the Trail The Appalachian TrailSpirit of the Trail
- Flap Flap Picture bookFlap Flap
- Thauma Picture bookThauma
Closing argument
Pick up the case.
Every book is on Amazon and Goodreads. For interviews, events or press, the media kit with his bio and headshot is on Joe’s blog.
Short bio, for the press
Joe Broadmeadow retired as a captain from the East Providence, Rhode Island Police Department after twenty years, where he commanded the Investigative Services Division and served on the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. He writes the Josh Williams and Hawk Bennett crime novels, true crime, a young adult fantasy trilogy and picture books, and founded JEBWizard Publishing in 2019.