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 …

The shortlist for the…

Darlington-based Inkerman Writers have produced their latest anthology of short stories, Inkerman  Street, based on the demolition of a fictional northern street. …

Novelist John Dean is running an online mentoring and writing workshop programme for aspiring authors.

John, who is based in Dumfries and Galloway, has had sixteen crime novels published and is with London-based The Book Folks. He is a co-director of Inscribe Media Limited, which is running the programmes.

John, who also runs creative writing courses, said: “Writing can be a lonely pastime and our programmes help writers tackle some of the many challenges that it throws up. “We…

Are the defacing of a town’s war memorial and the death of a WWII veteran connected? DCI Jack Harris investigates.

The small town of Levton Bridge is beset by a spate of vandalism against its war memorials. Uniformed police believe it is just kids, but DCI Jack Harris is not so sure. And when a local WWII veteran is found brutally murdered, his suspicions are…

The Week has named its crime fiction books to look out for in 2018  Check them out at…

Big hitters including Lee Child, Ian Rankin and Val McDermid feature on the longlist for the most prestigious crime writing prize in the country.

The prize was created to celebrate the very best in crime fiction and is open to UK and Irish crime authors whose novels were published in paperback from 1 May 2017 to 30 April 2018.

2018 marks the 14^th year of the …

Best-selling crime writer John Dean is to give a talk to the Mystery Readers’ Group at Wigtown Library in Dumfries and Galloway on Monday 28^th…

You can create the finest landscapes, the greatest stories, the most remarkable writing but you can not make your stories live unless you have characters. They are your vehicle to tell the story.

Characters have jobs to do within the story, making things…