Turning an Actor into an Undercover Cop

I was hesitant about creating a detective for a series of books. I love crime fiction, both as a writer and a reader. But there are so many pitfalls in featuring a detective: 

It’s easy to neglect the detective character because of the extensive details of the crime he, or she, is investigating.  This often means having to put in a subplot about the detective’s private life that just takes the reader away from the crime and adds little else.
What I was determined to do was create a detective that had a lot of depth, whose character was brought out by the work itself.

So I created Myles Morgan, a struggling actor who becomes an undercover cop. There's a lot of conflict within Myles, with his colleagues, and with the job of being a police officer. I’ve written one short story and three novellas, which are now available in one volume called MYLES UNDERCOVER.

The video below is about how I came up with idea for Myles and what I think about him.

MYLES UNDERCOVER, featuring the short story, NO HERO, and the novellas, RIOT MURDER, KILLER WHISPERS, and SHADOWS GROW, is available from Amazon US, Amazon UK, Smashwords, and will soon be available from Barnes & Noble, Kobo and the iBookstore.

But you can download a FREE copy of the short story, NO HERO, here by clicking on either Kindle or ePub (for Kobo, Nook, etc).