Joe Broadmeadow

Author · Retired Police Captain

The catalog

The Books

Crime fiction, true crime, young adult fantasy, memoir, and picture books. Every one of them rooted in real experience.

The Josh Williams Series

Detective Lieutenant Josh Williams of the East Providence Police Department, and the cases that follow him.

Book cover of 'Pieces of the Past' by Joe Broadmeadow featuring a thorny crown with a red cross and blood droplets on a textured background.

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Pieces of the Past

A decades-old crime refuses to stay buried. Human remains at an abandoned construction site pull Josh Williams into a 1970s kidnapping that never really ended.

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Cover of the book 'Collision Course' by Joe Broadmeadow, featuring a black and white background with bold red and blue title text.

Collision Course

A fatal encounter between a police sergeant and a troubled Marine veteran becomes a weapon in an ambitious prosecutor’s run for the Senate.

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Book cover of 'Silenced Justice' by Joe Broadmeadow, featuring a gavel, a chair, and a background depicting a courtroom with an American flag.

Silenced Justice

An old case reopened: a man accused in 1972 dies in prison before trial, and the evidence of his innocence was buried with him.

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The Hawk Bennett Novels

Harrison “Hawk” Bennett: defense lawyer, former Green Beret, and no one’s idea of polite company.

A Change of Hate cover

A Change of Hate

A Buddhist monk who was once a Vietcong colonel walks into Hawk’s office, and everything Hawk believed about the war starts to shift.

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True Crime

Written with the people who lived it.

It’s Just the Way It WasJoe Broadmeadow

It’s Just the Way It Was

Inside the war on the New England mob, written with Brendan Doherty, former superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police.

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Choices: You Make ’em, You Own ’emJoe Broadmeadow

Choices: You Make ’em, You Own ’em

Written with Jerry Tillinghast.

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UnMade: Honor, Loyalty, RedemptionJoe Broadmeadow

UnMade: Honor, Loyalty, Redemption

Written with Bobby Walason.

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Young Adult: The Last Dragon

Wizards and dragons with a Rhode Island twist.

Memoir

Spirit of the TrailJoe Broadmeadow

Spirit of the Trail

Life, nature, and purpose along the 2,185 miles of the Appalachian Trail.

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Picture Books

Written for (and sometimes with) the grandkids.

Every title is on Amazon and Goodreads. Bookstores and libraries can order them by title.