Volume 8 of the Drake and Hepple Mysteries is published. Secrets and Whispers is set in the beautiful historic city of Chester. Most of the action takes place in a busy, narrow street called Bishops Walk that sits in the heart of the city. This is fictional, but it is inspired by the charming and very real Godstall Lane. Detective Chief Inspector Drake and his sergeant, Grace Hepple, find that everyone knows everyone else in Bishops Walk. This community is full of secrets and

Volume 8 has gone into the final edit. It is called Secrets and Whispers. Here is the first stab at the cover.

Recently two readers have achieved remarkable feats. One managed to read all the seven books published so far in only nine days. Another reader managed the same feat in twelve days. Writing fiction is a lonely process and only a tiny fraction of readers ever leave a review. So it is wonderfully encouraging to see readers who have obviously been hooked by one book after another. Perhaps I will try to continue writing. Actually the next book, the eighth, is already in the final

A male body is found at Chester Zoo one morning. He appears to have fallen off a high folding ladder. The pathologist is puzzled that his...

Dead Likeness is finally written. It is undergoing beta reading and proofreading. It has taken me longer to write than I expected. A stay...

I have just finished bringing the website up to date with images of the locations used in each book. You can access this by pulling down...

Blindsight takes the reader from the historic city of Chester to the fascinating Dutch town of Delft and the magical island of Bali....

When I published Dangerous Knowledge, it was the first time I had finished a book and did not have the main idea for the next one. This...

Volume 5 of the Drake and Hepple Mysteries is now published and available on Amazon as a paperback or for Kindle. You can get there by...

There has been a long gap between my last post and this, and it is quite a while since I published volume 4 The Flautist. There are two...

Martin said that he liked the fourth book best so far. I have had quite a bit of similar feedback. This is interesting because I probably...

My fourth Drake and Hepple mystery is now published. It is officially called The Flautist. Although I do try to play the flute myself it...

You would think that, with all the newly created spare time at home, writing would go on at pace during the pandemic. Personally I have...

The Drake and Hepple mysteries are crime novels in which time and place play roles critical to the plot. These places and their history...

I was born and lived until I was 12 in Chester. I still visit frequently as close relatives live there. There is so much history in...

"Fatal Practice" is published 18th November 2019. Here it is! The latest book in the series of Drake and Hepple mysteries is now...

The third volume of the Drake and Hepple mysteries is now written and has a provisional title of Fatal Practice. I am hoping to publish...

Over the last twelve months three people have seperately introduced me to a fascinating creature. So much was I taken with this creature...

Work has started on the third volume of the Drake and Hepple mysteries. After many weeks of digging around and looking for ideas, I...

Today I finally published my latest book, Without Trace. For those of you following this website, this is a change of name. Throughout...