Frank served in the U.S. Army from 1986-91 in Military Intelligence as a Czechoslovak linguist.

In 1993, he became  a police officer in Spokane, Washington. During his career, he worked as a patrol officer, corporal, and detective before entered into leadership roles, becoming a sergeant in 2002. He was fortunate enough to command patrol officers, investigators, K-9 officers (and their dogs!), and the SWAT team. Frank retired from law enforcement in 2013 as a captain in order to write full time and to teach.  From 2013-17, he taught law enforcement subject matter at the community college and university, and leadership as a national instructor for a prominent police institution. He also occasionally teaches a series of writing workshops. 

Frank earned a BA in History from Eastern Washington University in 1998, and an MS in Administration of Justice from the University of Louisville in 2012.

Frank began writing seriously at about thirteen. In 1995, he started a draft of Under A Raging Moon, which would become the first book in the River City series of crime fiction. Since then, Frank has completed multiple novels set in River City, a fictional version of Spokane, Washington.  Several of Frank’s other novels are also set in River City, including the Stefan Kopriva mystery series (beginning with Waist Deep), and Some Degree of Murder, written with Colin Conway.

While some of Frank’s novels are set in Spokane proper, such as The Last Horseman and At Their Own Game, he has also ventured elsewhere, such as the Chicago setting for Blood on Blood, the first book in the Ania trilogy, written with Jim Wilsky, or the Las Vegas setting for Queen of Diamonds (Ania #2). Books with an East Coast flavor include his “A Bricks & Cam Job” series with Eric Beetner beginning with The Backlist, and his novels with Lawrence Kelter, (The Last Collar and Fallen City).  He has also partnered with Bonnie R. Paulson in their sex-trade thriller, The Trade Off.

Frank has held the #1 author spot for police procedurals on Amazon. Frank’s books are available in all formats — paperback, ebook, and audio book.

In addition to novels, dozens of Franks’ short stories have been published in magazines (print or online) and numerous anthologies. All of his short stories are collected into three volumes:  No Good Deed, The Cleaner, and Dead Even.

Frank also write mainstream fiction under his real name, Frank Scalise, including his hockey novel All That Counts and a children’s book series about Sam the Hockey Player, which begins with The Hardest Hit.

Frank resides in Redmond, Oregon, with his wife, Kristi. He is an avid hockey fan, reader, movie lover, gamer, and a tortured guitarist.