Bio
Paul Bishop is an American writer and LAPD detective best known as one of the interrogators in the short-lived reality competition television series Take the Money & Run, in 2011.
A 35-year veteran of a major west coast metropolitan police department, Bishop's career has included a three-year tour as an interrogator with the department's Anti-Terrorist Division and over 25 years of experience in the investigation of sex crimes.
For several years, his various Special Assaults Units have consistently produced the highest number of detective-initiated arrests and highest crime clearance rate in the city.
Twice honoured as Detective of the Year for his skills as an interrogator, Bishop has also received the Quality and Productivity Commission Award from the City of Los Angeles.
As a nationally recognised interrogator, Bishop co-stars with his professional partner, bestselling author and prosecutor Mary Hanlon Stone, as the regular interrogators and driving force behind the reality show Take the Money & Run, from producers Bertram Van Munster and Jerry Bruckheimer.
Bishop and Stone also shared their experience and expertise in their book, How to Tell When Your Teen Is Lying.
Bishop's novels include Hot Pursuit, Deep Water, Penalty Shot, Suspicious Minds, the short story collection Running Wylde, and five novels in his L.A.P.D. Detective Fey Croaker series – Croaker: Kill Me Again, Croaker: Grave Sins, Croaker: Tequila Mockingbird, Croaker: Chalk Whispers and Croaker: Pattern of Behavior.
Bishop has also written feature film scripts and numerous episodic scripts for television, including for such shows as Diagnosis: Murder, LA Dragnet, The New Detectives and Navy Seals: The Untold Stories.