Joe Broadmeadow
Retired Police Captain Joe
Broadmeadow served for twenty years
with the East Providence (RI) Police
Department. He also worked in the
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement
Task Force and on special assignment
to the FBI drug task force.
Joe has published three fictional crime
thrillers. Two books center around the
same character: East Providence, RI
Police Sergeant Josh Williams. The
third, a historical legal thriller called A
Change of Hate, is about a Vietnam vet
and former Green Beret- turnedlawyer.
Broadmeadow has also written two
critically acclaimed non-fiction works
on Organized Crime; Choices: You
Make ‘em You Own ‘em (written
with Jerry Tillinghast) and Unmade:
Honor Loyalty Redemption.
(written with Bobby Walason.)
The popular Crimetown podcast
featured both Tillinghast and Walason
in their Season 1 on Providence, Rhode
Island.