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Today on the show we have retired Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Detective and Author Danny Smith. 

Danny Smith is a retired homicide detective who spent 21 years with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. In 2004 he moved to Idaho and spent the next 18 years working as a private investigator and consultant. 

He is the author of the award-winning Dickie Floyd Detective Novel series, the Rich Farris Detective Novel series, and his autobiography, Nothing Left to Prove: A Law Enforcement Memoir. His blog can be found at murdermemo.com.

For those of you who want to know what it is really like to be a homicide detective in a big city, this episode is for you.

 In today’s episode we discuss:

·      Why Danny chose a career with the L.A. Country Sheriff’s Department. 

·      What academy life and equipment looked like in the early 1980s.

·      The appeal of investigations for Danny.

·      Danny’s life as a Homicide Detective.

·      When and why, Danny started writing books. 

·      The unanticipated benefit of writing novels. 

·      How he and his department interacted with the L.A.P.D. and other law enforcement departments.

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