British Crime Author Chris Simms Talks about Manchester and His DI Jon Spicer at SCENE OF THE CRIME

[J. Sydney Jones]

Chris Simms and His Mancunian Policeman– DI Jon Spencer

January 14, 2011 by Scene of the Crime | Edit

Manchester-based writer Chris Simms is the author of six novels in the D.I. Jon Spicer series, procedurals which follow the investigations of the mercurial Spicer. Simms’s most recent installment in the series, Cut Adrift, earned him a place on the short list for the 2010 CWA Dagger Award and elicited rave reviews from the critics. The Guardian called it “well-researched, pacey and engaging,” while the Irish Independent dubbed it “an absolutely ace British police procedural.”

 

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