The Poisoned Meadow (The Misfits book 3) Published Today
The third book in The Misfits series for teenagers is published today, for Kindle and e-readers. We hope to have a paperback edition ready soon. A field on a local farm becomes the site of illegal fly-tipping and toxic waste disposal. Two cows are poisoned before the farmer, a friend of Wolfie’s mum, is alerted…
Walking Around Kingston & Corfe Castle
The recent weekend provided us with another spell of fine weather, ideal for walking. We took the bus from Swanage to Kingston, then wandered slowly downhill towards Corfe Castle, using a bridleway. It took us through woods at the Kingston end, then through rolling farmland for the rest of the way. The next day we…
Purbeck Hills Walk
August and early September provided the ideal opportunity to walk the full length of the Purbeck hilltop ridge. The last mile or so of the western section immediately prior to Corfe Castle now has a permissive path along the ridgetop. Until a few years ago it wasn’t officially accessible. And for the duration of the…
Sophie Allen novel 12, Vicious Crimes, finished!
It’s been a busy time during the last couple of months, with holidays and work on the garden affecting my writing schedule. I completed the 12th Sophie Allen novel last week. It’s now in the safe hands of Kate Lyall-Grant at Joffe Books. The next couple of months will be taken up with several stages…
The Missing Pilot, an Adventure Story for Teenagers, Out Now.
I’ve just published the second Misfits novel, aimed at teenagers. It’s called The Missing Pilot and is now available on Amazon for Kindle and other e-readers. Events get even darker for the seven teenagers when they discover a seemingly abandoned plane in a field near the coast. What’s going on? Who are the threatening people…
Good Progress with the Next Sophie Allen Novel
Readers will be pleased to hear that I’m almost two-thirds of the way through the twelfth Sophie Allen novel. Sophie is now a chief superintendent and her “patch” stretches across the three counties of Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset. This novel is based in the Watchet/Exmoor area of Somerset but I’ve managed to sneak in a…
The Lost Tramp, a Novel for Teenagers, Out Now!
February 2023: The Lost Tramp has just been published as both an e-book and a paperback. You can either buy it outright for Kindle at £1.95, get it for free if you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber or buy the paperback version from Amazon at £5.95. This is the first novel in the Misfits series.…