Blog tour gearing up for 2021…

Blog tour gearing up for 2021… Twenty-four bloggers over eight days, timed to coincide with the release of the Ebook. Can’t wait to read their reviews of the new novel.

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15th July – Release Day for The Dead Tell Lies

My latest book is almost out. The Dead Tell Lies has been two years in the making, and earlier this year was snapped up by Bloodhound Books in a two book deal. It tells the story of Greg Adams, a criminologist who has put six serial killers away. But when someone starts copying their murder styles, Greg finds himself being framed for the killings, and realises he is up against a grandmaster…

The book is set in and around London, including several places close to where I grew up and know very well.…

On saying nothing…

When I read my first Jack Reacher novel (61 hours, by Lee Child), one phrase struck me. It’s in every Reacher novel, sprinkled sparingly into the prose like a subtle spice.

Reacher said nothing.

Usually it’s in the midst of tense dialogue, at a point where nineteen out of twenty people, and thus most readers, would have said something. But Jack Reacher held his tongue. Not because he was afraid to speak, quite the reverse. It made me, as a reader, re-evaluate what I would have said, and come to the conclusion that Jack was right, it was better not to speak at this point. …