Artist, printmaker, family historian and writer, born in Essex and now living in Teesside. The wardrobe having got over-full with prints, I began writing fiction in 2010, initially illustrating 'Edge', then 'One that got away', a short story which spawned three novels written for my own entertainment. Thereafter I began a tale of murder, on a honeymoon cruise, sailing from Edinburgh to Shetland whereupon Luke Darbyshere, an Edinburgh-based detective inspector in Scotland’s Crime and Drugs division, fast became the central character in a series which explores his often-toxic friendship with crime reporter Baz Rose. Murder continued to provide the background against which were enacted the triangles of their lives and their affairs; their relationships with each other, and with the women they loved.