A note from Andrew:

Having never written a dramatic word in my life, some thirty years ago an idea for a short story popped into my head. Encouraged by my wife and daughter, I wrote a tale called Cat and Mouse, about a timid and ineffectual man and his pet cat. Wife and daughter approved so I produced some more stories and then joined a writers’ group who also liked what I wrote.

Sir George Everest said they climbed that mountain “because it was there.” The same might be said of my writing. Why do we write? Because of the idea, the notion, the thought. “Because it is there,” and the irresistible urge of the author to put it down in print.

And so, to the impetus to write my first murder mystery. Could I make the jump after years of writing macabre short stories to a full-length drama? That familiar beating in the gut said, “Yes. Try it. Give it a go.”  The Lyme Regis Murders, based in a cosy coastal Dorset town where nothing untoward had ever happened before, was the well-received result.

That first book was followed by a second in the series involving private investigator Tammy Pierre. The Black Candle Killings gives a glimpse of the sinister world of voodoo. A practice once associated very much with the Caribbean, but in this case brought to the UK with catastrophic consequences.

Now, The Politician’s Wife adds a mystery with political intrigue, social extremism, and, of course, murder to Tammy’s files. And I’m deep into her next volume, coming in 2025, The Clubhouse Slaughters.

My goals as an author include shattering notions, changing perceptions, and spoiling long-held views. That was my intention in venturing into the world of crime thrillers. I’ve found that “nice” people are not always what they seem. The helpless can be transformed into the most dangerous, the most dangerous become the most harmless. It’s all up to the writer and what they seek to achieve.