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I write crime drama but I don’t write police procedurals. I’ve never been a police officer, so I have no idea how to work a crime scene, bag evidence or interview suspects. If I wrote police procedurals I would just be repeating what other authors had written about what it’s like to solve a crime as a police officer and then my books would sound like too many others. However, I have been a journalist working on a local newspaper in the New Forest. That’s where I began my ca

Authenticity is the unique secret sauce I bring to my New Forest Crime Drama series. I write about Hep Anderssen, a journalist who works on a local paper in the New Forest because that’s where I started my career. I left college and joined the local newspaper based in New Milton, as a trainee reporter and spent three years writing about the goings on and happenings in this lovely part of the world. I spent a lot of time with the local police, in the magistrates’ courts and th

When I started to see the four and five star reviews roll in for Blood Between Us, it made me emotional. Not just because it was fantastic to see something that I loved, being loved by people who don't know me, but because this book and I are old friends and it's wonderful to see and old friend doing well. I first wrote this story over 25 years ago - yes that's correct. Twenty five years. Before my children were born. I can't remember ever not wanting to be a writer and th

I have always been a writer. Even before I knew what a writer was, I wrote stories. I loved stories. My mum read to me at bedtime and during the school summer holidays she would choose a whopper book like Wind in the Willows or Watership Down and read some of it each day to my brother and I, putting on all the voices and filling it with expression making us scared and excited as the story unfolded. We didn’t own books, but our house was full of books from the library. I was