Why I wrote

   Ever since I can remember, I’ve been a meddler of words. I like writing about fear and emotion – the cause and effect of crime – what makes a character do something.  Working as a housing officer for eight years gave

I started writing The Estate Series way back in the early 2000’s for two reasons. First, I was employed as a housing officer by my local authority and, second was watching the first series of the British TV drama, Shameless. Having been on

    Following on from my post about why I wrote Taunting the Dead, because of the success I had with it, my publisher asked for two more to create the DS Allie Shenton Series. I’d already written 10,000 words of Follow

As I’m starting from scratch with this website again, and my publishing journey began in late 2011, I thought I’d start a series about why I’ve written the books I have so far. Taunting the Dead was the very first crime