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A Rock and a Hard Place Excerpt

A Rock and a Hard Place Excerpt

This week, despite life hurling curveballs at me and laying obstacles in my path, I completed the first draft of A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE, the 21st book in the DCI Jack Logan series. I am by and large happy with it - as happy as I ever am with a first draft - and will...

An Excerpt from My Daughter is Missing

An Excerpt from My Daughter is Missing

With only a couple of months until it's published, I thought it would be fun to give you a taste of what to expect from My Daughter is Missing, my upcoming psychological thriller. Like with my crime fiction, I tried very hard to make it completely serious, but it...

The Bone House – Horror Comic Preview

The Bone House – Horror Comic Preview

If you're a member of my VIP Club, it's possible that you may have read a short story I wrote a few years ago called THE BONE HOUSE. It was a very dark horror story, written back when I was spending most of my days writing funny books for children. It was written way...

My Daughter is Missing Q&A

My Daughter is Missing Q&A

It's less than two months until my first psychological thriller novel (not counting HIM) is published by Bookouture, and I can't wait for you to read it. Because this is a new departure for me, there were a lot of questions about it from readers. I answered a lot of...

Farewell to the Mighty Quinn

Farewell to the Mighty Quinn

We knew, right away, she was the dog for us. It was July 2014, just a few months after my mum had passed away following two long battles with cancer. We'd driven for 4 hours down to a farm in the Scottish Borders, after my wife had spent hours doing her due diligence...

A Litter of Bones in Exciting New Format

A Litter of Bones in Exciting New Format

It has been five years since A Litter of Bones was first published, which still seems hard to believe. Since then, I've written 26 other books in the DCI Logan universe, but people still - thankfully - enjoy the book that started it all. Now, thanks to a collaboration...