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...

Last time I wrote about giving birth to a book. I think even a crime novel needs to be authentic. I prefer to write about real places...

A Degree of Death was published by Amazon on 25:11:17. Being male I do not have the foggiest idea what it must be like to give birth. ...