About A Sitcom That Didn't Happen

Added on 17 January 2020

A few years ago I started the process of developing a sitcom. There was a fellow from Tiger Aspect interested, and he was going to pitch it to the BBC. And by ‘started the process of developing’, if this sitcom was the road to Manchester United’s 1999 Champions League triumph, we d...

Reading from THE ART OF DYING

Added on 03 January 2020

At Noireland crime fiction festival last year, they asked authors to make a short clip of themselves reading from one of their novels. I chose the opening to The Art Of Dying, DI Westphall Book 3. It was all arranged through Mulholland, my publisher, and I thought maybe Mulholland would do something...

DS Hutton Book 4 - SEE THAT MY GRAVE IS KEPT CLEAN

Added on 04 November 2019

The world of publishing heaved a collective sigh of relief today as the fourth book in the DS Hutton crime series, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean, finally saw the light of day. “It’s been a long time coming,” said Professor Malcolm Connery, of the Glasgow Institute of Special Thin...

The Elephant At The Table

Added on 11 October 2019

Last weekend I had a short story printed in the Sunday Express. I attempted to get a quid pro quo; I'd give them the story, and in return they'd renounce Boris Johnson, call for another Brexit vote, and demand Farage be sent back to the pits of Isengard from whence he came. I didn't mana...

The ART OF DYING

Added on 23 August 2019

We come to it at last, the third book in the DI Westphall series, THE ART OF DYING. It’s my favourite of the Westphall books, and perhaps of all my crime novels. Ah, you might think, that’s what all you artistic types say. Behold my latest work! It is my most magnificent! Bring me the fi...