Kevin Wade

With me today on Writers at Work is Kevin Wade, best known for his work on the police drama Blue Bloods, where he served as writer, showrunner, and executive producer. The show ran for 14 seasons on CBS. Prior to that, Kevin wrote or co-wrote such feature films as Working Girl, Mr. Baseball, Meet Joe Black, and Maid in Manhattan, and polished the script for the James Bond film GoldenEye, among others. His play Key Exchange was produced off Broadway back in 1981. He's been honing his craft for a good long while.

In 2025, Kevin published his first novel, JOHNNY CARELESS, featuring Jeep Mullane, police chief in Bayville, Long Island, who was once an NYPD detective. When the body of a childhood friend washes up on a beach, blue collar Mullane does battle with the victim's wealthy family and the man's ex-wife while he works the case. It's a gritty tale that calls to mind the great cop-out-of-water tales that raised high the bar for crime fiction.

Kevin's JOHNNY CARELESS was nominated for a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Another Jeep Mullane novel, ONE GOOD EYE, arrives in August.

What happens when a screenwriter and playwright decides to try his hand at writing a novel? How must he adapt to meet the readers rather than the viewers' needs? Who better than Kevin Wade to tell us.