Moscow Policing

Knowing my interest in meeting police in every country that I can, my publishers in Moscow arranged for me to meet the Chief of Police for central Moscow, Alexandr Havkin — whose bailliwick includes the Kremlin and all the surrounding area. I had been briefed to bring a gift of a UK police hat and…

Mockba Rules!

I’ve just been in Moscow for my Russian publishers, Centrepolygraph, attending the Moscow Book Fair and doing a number of bookstore signings, as well as a press conference with over 25 journalists lasting some three hours. I hadn’t realized Roy Grace is huge in Russia — and it was really a thrill. And no, sadly…

Scariest News Story Ever!

Good news! In Moscow this past weekend (more of which to come), I finally finished the first draft of my new Roy Grace novel, “Dead Man’s Footsteps”, which will be published next June. It is always a strange feeling sending your book off to your editor and your agent — it reminds me of all…

Permanently Out Of Print

I have been getting a lot of emails from readers about why my novels Getting Wired, Dead Letter Drop, Atom Bomb Angel and Billionaire are all out of print. I’ve now updated this website’s Books page with more info about all these books and my reasons for deliberately keeping all four books permanently out of…

The Never Ending Story

I’ve just agreed to participate in an online storytelling website, called The NeverEnding Story. In it, writers have to write the first few hundred words of a story then anyone can add to it.I have started a story something a little different to what I normally write and it will be fun to see where…