Apologies for the absence of a new blog post. I am closeted away trying to finish my new Roy Grace novel, “Dead Man’s Footsteps”, by August 12th and having to put everything else aside in order to write flat out. I will resume my blog as soon as possible, and also forgive my tardy reply…
Thanks to all of you who have emailed me about the prospect of a TV series based on my Roy Grace books. There is a lot of work going on behind the scenes about the possibility of a Roy Grace television series, but please do not expect it to happen anytime soon. At the moment…
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…
Sunday was a black day for liberty in England. In my view it is one of the worst days for human rights in England in my living memory. Today there comes into force a total ban on all smoking indoors in public places, in particular the work place and all restaurants bars and clubs, imposed…
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…
Our beloved Tibetan Terrier, Sooty, died a few weeks ago at the ripe old age of 16 – 112 years old in human years. Actually the last four years were a bonus, because I ran him over in 2003.It was one of those truly terrible moments, where you wish so desperately that you could rewind…
Once a year I go bonkers… I swap my latest exotic, comfortable wheels (currently my wonderful Bentley Continental GT) for 24 hours in a Citroen 2CV in yet another pathetic attempt at promoting my latest book-du-jour. For those of you who have spent the last 12 months on Mars, it is my third Roy Grace…
My new baby, Not Dead Enough (which I was pleased to see was the No 1 most pre-ordered novel on Amazon prior to its release) was given a fantastic send-off at Borders bookstore in Brighton on Thursday night, with a group of 200 people there, including half of Sussex CID, the Mayoress, and the whole…
I’ve just had my second blind date! My first, last year, was with the very delightful Anja Koenig, (chaperoned by her equally delightful husband, Stephen) (see my earlier blog) who won a competition in Germany to have dinner with me. This time it was with Sarah Hobden, who won a competition in Sussex Life magazine…
I’ve recently spent a few extraordinary days in New York with two police officers, Detective Inspectors Dennis Bootle and Pat Lanigan, researching for my new Roy Grace novel, which will be published next year, and which features a character who tries to benefit commercially from the attack on the World Trade Centre. Part of the…