Born: 11/05/1938   Royal Oak
Parents: Jabe Cook and Grace Jackson
Spouse: Ruth (1st), Cinda (2nd)
Children: Sarah Rachel (1st), Devin Purdy (2nd)
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Permanent :
Missoula , MT
Contact Information:
Email : [email protected]
Website : http://jonajackson.com

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	No Man's Dog : A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery - Fang Mulheisen Crime Novel	Michigan , Mystery	Adult	New York : Atlantic Monthly Press	2004
	Badger Games - Fang Mulheisen Crime Novel	Mystery	Adult	Atlantic Monthly Press	2002
	La Donna Detroit - Fang Mulheisen Crime Novel	Michigan , Mystery	Adult	New York : Atlantic Monthly Press	2000
	Man with an Axe - Fang Mulheisen Crime Novel	Michigan , Mystery	Adult	New York : Atlantic Monthly Press	1998
	Go By Go -	Historical Fiction	Adult	Belen, NM : Dennis McMillan Publications	1998
	Dead Folks - Fang Mulheisen Crime Novel	Michigan , Mystery	Adult	New York : Atlantic Monthly Press	1996
	Deadman - Fang Mulheisen Crime Novel	Michigan , Mystery	Adult	New York : Atlantic Monthly Press	1994
	Hit on the House - Fang Mulheisen Crime Novel	Michigan , Mystery	Adult	New York : Atlantic Monthly Press	1993
	Grootka - Fang Mulheisen Crime Novel	Michigan , Mystery	Adult	Online: Foul Play	1990
	The Blind Pig - Fang Mulheisen Crime Novel	Michigan , Mystery	Adult	New York : Random House	1979
	The Diehard - Fang Mulheisen Crime Novel	Michigan , Mystery	Adult	New York : Random House	1977
	- Contributor to Sports Illustrated and Saturday Review

What is the aim or goal of your writing: Jon A. Jackson's novels about Detroit police detective Fang Mulheisen have proven themselves to be "perhaps the toughest, most darkly comic, consistently superior American procedural [mysteries] on the market," in the estimation of Booklist reviewer Bill Ott. The first books in the series-- The Diehard, The Blind Pig, Grootka, and Hit on the House--feature the gritty urban background of Detroit. Reviewing Grootka, Marilyn Stasio of the New York Times Book Review commented on Mulheisen's "deep but unsentimental affection for his city" and called the book "dark and moody and full of its own melancholy street music." The title character is a retired policeman who works with Mulheisen to hunt down a psychopathic computer genius. As the pair moves from one crime scene to the next, "Grootka always seems to get there first, full of fight," noted Stasio. "But Fang is the one with the sensitivity to process what they come across." "Mulheisen's most frequent adversaries are members of the Detroit mafia--especially a suave, stylish killer named Joe Service, who appears in several volumes of the series. In Hit on the House, Mulheisen is caught in a moral quandary when he finds himself falling in love with the wife of a minor mob figure. Jackson's skillful rendering of his characters led Stasio to name him a "dark, droll chronicler of the Detroit underworld." She further remarked that the author's "expressive characters revel in the arcane language and lore of their dirty trade." Stasio added: "The guns, the gore, the nitty and the gritty--Mr. Jackson always gets it right."

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