About

I live a stone’s throw from the sea on the south coast of England in a small blue house surrounded by a garden filled with flowers, vegetables and many, many wild flowers of the type some unkind people might call weeds.

I love talking about my novels and those of other writers I admire and I frequently appear at book festivals and enjoy chatting with book groups. So do contact me if you’d like a visit.

I’m so excited to be joining these two superb crime writers for an evening of murderous chat in March 2024! Thank you for inviting me Heathfield Library.

Some events in 2023

Wet and windy Brighton was made so much brighter by all the wonderful authors and readers I met in October. Roll on next year at Darkside of Brighton.

This year I was particularly excited to be undertaking two lecture tours on board the iconic ship Queen Mary 2 as she crossed the Atlantic and later visiting Oxford to talk about British crime fiction from the Golden Age onwards.

Signing copies of my books in Blackwells, Broad St Oxford.

On Wednesday 27th September at Hastings Library, East Sussex discussing our books and our own favourite authors with fellow Sussex crime writers, the wonderful William Shaw, Sheila Bugler and Merryn Allingham.

More to come, watch this space!