Further to my recent post on reviews, The Railway Man received one on Amazon recently, which said: “The author continues to come up with great storylines and continues to develop the main characters further so it’s like you nearly seem to…

Reviews are part of a writer’s life and most reviewers are positive; even if they do not like the book (I am fortunate in that the vast majority of Amazon reviewers do like my work) they try to be constructive and explain why. I respect that and my view is that if the reviewer makes a valid point a writer…

British readers have become more gripped by crime and thriller novels, with sales up by 19% between 2015 and 2017, recently-published figures suggest.…

Check out Nicholas Camm’s brilliant performance on the audio book of the DCI Harris mystery The Vixen’s Scream, one of four of my books available in audio, all read by Nicholas.

A series of blood-curdling screams is heard in the dead of the Cumbrian night. When the body of a young woman is found, rumours quickly spread that a serial killer is at work in the…

I also write under the name John Stanley, with two novels having been published by the Book Folks, featuring DCI Danny Radford, who investigates crime in a decaying northern city riddled by corruption.

You can check…

Check out Nicholas Camm’s brilliant performance on the audio book of the DCI Blizzard mystery The Long Dead, one of four of my books available in audio, all read by Nicholas.…

Five of the Blizzard and Harris crime novels are currently residing in the Top 100…

I am proud to be one of a stable of writers published by the Book Folks of London - you can check them all out, including Anna Willett, whose latest novel is shown here, at http://thebookfolks.com/

Here are my golden rules for witing.

* Consider the reader - do not write for yourself, always write for the reader.

* Be…

Life imitating art, I have recently become a dog owner, like my character DCI Jack Harris. It gives extra poignance to To Die Alone, one of the Harris series, part of which is set in the murky world of illegal dog fighting. You can buy the novel at …