Carl Brookins

Carl Brookins
3090 Mildred Drive,
Roseville, MN 55113
612-636-1733
carlbrookins@earthlink.net

Educated in the Saint Paul, Minnesota public school system, Brookins acquired a liberal arts B.A. degree from the University of Minnesota in a program that allowed him to explore many areas including art, history, humanities, media and journalism.

He was a producer/director at the Twin Cities public television station, KTCA-TV, for seven years. After a stint at graduate school in Michigan, Brookins moved his family to North Dakota to help establish the smallest non-tax-supported public television station in the nation.

In 1971 Brookins went to innovative Metropolitan State University, a college specializing in serving returning adult students from which he retired in 1998 after serving on the faculty and as a counselor.

He's had a successful career as a free-lance photographer, and continues to write, produce, direct, and occasionally perform in local cable television programs. He's an avid sailor and with his wife Jean has sailed in many locations around the world. In 1989, as a result of a long-standing desire and classes in mystery writing at The Loft, Brookins began seriously pursuing writing fiction as a new career. His first novel, INNER PASSAGES, a story of one man's quest for justice after the death of his wife while they cruised the coast of British Columbia in a small sail boat was published by TOP Publications in 2000. since then, three more mysteries have been released, the latest, OLD SILVER is about the finding of mysterious treasure in Lake Superior. He also writes a detective series set in Minneapolis. THE CASE OF THE GREEDY LAWYERS is an ironic look at the private eye genre. A second case, THE CASE OF THE DECEIVING DON is due this year.

Brookins is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, as well as Private Eye Writers of America, and the Minnesota Crime Wave, a touring group of mystery authors. The trio makes frequent appearances at libraries and bookstores, discussing a variety of topics. He has been a freelance mystery reviewer for the Saint Paul Pioneer Press and several on-line sites for several years.

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