The fact is: I’ve always loved music more than most people. Already as a kid, it was music that caught my attention in the movies more than...

When I tell people that my debut novel is set in Lisbon during WW2, most people give me a confused look. ‘Why Lisbon?’ they ask. ‘Wasn’t Po...

There was a moment when I was researching for The Unwanted Dead that stopped me in my tracks. For me, one of the most important parts ...

October 2020 When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she’s no s...

October 2020 With a killer on the loose. As the scorching summer sun beats down on St Mary’s in the Isles of Scilly, DI Ben Kitto and his...

October 2020 In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley a new edition of this seminal novel is bein...

  Book reviewers when congregated [even online in these weird days of Covid-19], often mutter “same old, same old” when discussing some of t...

September 2020 In City of Margins by William Boyle the lives of several lost souls intersect in Southern Brooklyn in the early 1990s. Th...