I was born in London, lived most of my life in the south of England. I only say that to excuse writing with a Sarff Lundin accint. After a lifetime of not knowing what to do, RAF Officer, TV delivery driver, medical rep, trainer, computer guy … I’d even spent three summers running a naturist resort in Portugal. I decided to try something new and retired.
Lying by the pool in the South of France, a story started to take shape in my mind. Then the days got shorter, and the evenings longer, and I started to type. The string of random words turned into “The Uncovered Policeman.” Writing this story, I met the central characters, Bea being the most important. She nagged me into telling what turned into a series of 12 light, cosy romances with a cast of pleasant happy people, with quirky characters. The New House trilogy, about a couple’s first year of retirement in France, followed. “Almost a Year in Occitanie” – No, it is not autobiographical. OK, not very autobiographical.
More recently, Crooke and Loch launch their careers, solving mysteries and crimes in “The Summer of ’71” and in a series of follow-up stories spanning the 1970s. 2020 marked the debut of another character … Melody. A lady of a certain age, a generous size and blinding intelligence, who first appears in “Problems and Passions.” The darkness of the great lockdown inspired some darker tales, for example “After The Event.” As well as a few more escapist ones, such as “When The Music Stops” featuring the delightful Juliet Evans the singing solicitor
