Events

2025

MARCH 4TH - Publication of PLAYING DEAD, an anthology of crime stories written by members of the Detection Club in honour of my 80th birthday.

MARCH 8TH - Arundel Literary Festival – appearance with Helen Fields.

APRIL 1ST - Publication of DEATH IN THE DRESSING ROOM (Severn House – Fethering).

APRIL 24TH - Publication of MAJOR BRICKET AND THE CIRCUS CORPSE, the first of a new crime series for Constable.

MAY 15TH - 18TH - Appearances at CrimeFest in Bristol.

OCTOBER 7TH - Publication of MRS PARGETER’S PAST (Severn House)

Major Bricket and the Circus Corpse

Meet Major Bricket, an infrequent resident of Highfield House in Stunston Peveril, Suffolk. In the past the Major's work assignments, frequently in foreign countries, have prevented him from spending much time there and as a result, there is an air of mystery around him while everyone in the village speculates on the nature of his occupation.

But now the Major has retired and has come home for good in his open-topped little red sports car... and what a homecoming it is, for lying spreadeagled on his lawn in the summer sunshine is the corpse of a clown.

The circus is in Stunston Peveril for the annual village fair, yet none of their quota of clowns is missing - or at least, nobody is saying. Could the body be that of an unfortunate early guest at the village's highlight of the social calendar, the Fincham Abbey Costume Ball? Fortunately Major Bricket's past clandestine career means that he is now very well placed to solve the mystery of the dead clown on his camomile lawn...