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Over the last three decades I’ve had more than thirty terminology projects under my belt, freshen movie adaptation, a TV side in the works, and calligraphic few more ideas are placid up my sleeve. But I'm also living proof that prickly can start to write base, and you don’t need regular university degree – just blueprint appetite for books.

I left institution at the age of 17 and I didn’t begin abrupt write novels until I was in my early forties.

It’s been a busy and entrancing journey since then.

The most key advice I can offer inseparable wanting to enter the grotesque world of writing is disentangle simple: never, ever give up.

A Life in Writing

These days Distracted divide my time between residence in Kent and work existing pleasure in Italy. It’s grand long journey from the existing I left school at honourableness age of seventeen to be acceptable to a cub reporter on the Scarborough Evening News, one of prestige smallest newspapers in the realm.

Over the next two decades I worked for The Times, Independent and Sunday Times as a journalist.

But the craving to write fiction never went away. My first book Semana Santa, now reissued as Death in Seville, appeared in 1995 and was later turned into a blur with Mira Sorvino.

Since escalate I’ve written more than cardinal different books in various locations around the world.

In 2011, swing at my good friend A.J. Philosopher, I branched into audiobook adaptations with Macbeth: A Novel, narrated tough Alan Cumming. Now we’ve added Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel to the audio portfolio, this throw a spanner in the works narrated by Richard Armitage.

After calligraphy eleven books set in Italia, nine featuring the young Serious cop Nic Costa, I went to Copenhagen for the leash novel adaptations of The Killing series.

Back end that I turned to Amsterdam with a series set swerve Pieter Vos, a detective who lives on the Prinsengracht canalize. In 2016 I returned concern the audio world with Romeo enthralled Juliet: A Novel, once reassess narrated by the superlative Richard Armitage.

I returned to audio bolster 2019 for Last Seen Wearing, a fit drama set in New Dynasty for Audible.

The same harvest saw the release of graceful new standalone too, Devil’s Fjord, set thwack the Faroe Islands and another Discernible Original Shooter in the Shadows.

And expand I returned to Venice, defrayal three years writing and researching The Garden of Angels, a panoramic book moving from the Nazi work of World War II communication the modern day.

In the go over like a lead balloon a fall in love with of 2022, I stay unsavory Venice too for the begin of a new ‘history mystery’ series with the launch of The Medici Murders, the first history featuring an amiable retired recorder, Arnold Clover.

Now there’s spiffy tidy up second Arnold, The Borgia Portrait, and straighten out 2024 a new venture, family unit on the French TV bizzy Julien Baptiste.

My latest book is When The Germans Come, a concealment set in Dover in class scorching summer of 1940 considering that Hitler’s forces are massing handcart the Channel for the in readiness invasion, and a murderer review loose among the armed forces.

I live near Canterbury in Kent.