It starts on Sunday 31 October with a talk about my crime novels at a charity lunch in Hampshire to raise money for the NSPCC. Next up is a talk on Tuesday 2 November on my local patch of Hayling Island followed by a press interview on the same day and a radio interview on Thursday 4 November when I'll be on the Sally Cronin Programme on Express FM between 1.30 pm and 4pm. On Friday 5 November between 5pm and 5.30pm I'll be on Portsmouth Live TV.…

I was made very welcome at the Southern region of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists on 22 October where I gave a talk on how I write, research and market my Inspector Andy Horton marine mystery crime novels and thrillers.

What a lovely group of people and I was delighted to see popular saga author…

In this video clip I am talking to Tony Smith of Angel Radio about a unique event where I and four of my fellow international crime authors: Simon Brett, Graham Hurley, Peter Lovesey and June Hampson join police, CSI, forensic and fingerprinting experts in Crime and the City, CSI Portsmouth on Saturday 6 November at the John Pounds Centre, Portsmouth.

Fiction meets fact at this…

I'm now over half way through writing the first draft of the next Inspector Andy Horton marine mystery police procedural crime novel, the seventh in the series, as yet untitled, but that doesn't mean I'll have finished the novel by Christmas, although Christmas is my deadline for completing the first draft. Why a deadline? Is this imposed by my publisher? The answer is 'no.' I find setting…

My marine mystery crime novels featuring Inspector Andy Horton and my thrillers are set on the south coast of England, in the Solent area with Portsmouth CID being Inspector Andy Horton’s patch. After reading an article in The News, Portsmouth’s local daily newspaper, I was reminded that when I write here I should say Portsmouth, England because there…