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Forty years ago I wrote CASE FOR COMPENSATION. This is the first of three mystery stories about Bristol UK lawyer Alastair Duncan. He investigates an unexplained car-wreck leaving a victim paralysed. Duncan races around France and England chasing down the truth and climaxing in a courtroom drama. In VILLA PLOT, COUNTERPLOT, Duncan takes on dangerous […]

Ratso would have been as frustrated as hell this year. As an avid cricket fan and still active player, he would have found the cancellation of all fixtures at Lord’s unbearable. As was clear in my thrillers Hard Place and Dead Fix, when not tackling organised crime for the Met. Police, Lord’s Cricket Ground is […]

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Excitingly, Deadline Vegas is now on Amazon Pre-Order at a discounted price until 18th June 2020, It involves the storyline of Dex Dexter’s obsession with casino revenge and destruction of a cheating casino. This makes it timely to answer one of the questions that I am asked about casinos and casino crime. There are two […]

Have you been catfished? You may not find out for days, weeks or months. I have now been catfished twice on my Facebook pages. The first time was some 18 months back and the second time last month. The strange word arose from the drama documentary made in 2010 – called Catfish! A “catfish” is […]

The headlines in the Daily Telepgraph on 26th May 2018 are a stark warning of the ongoing dangers to cricket and other international sports from gangsters who fix results to win big on the black market for gambling – at the cost of honest punters. No question, bodies who run cricket, tennis and other major […]

Following on from the Australian cricket team being caught cheating in a recent Test match in South Africa has now come the revelation that an Independent Review Panel set up in 2016 has established a tsunami of fixed tennis-matches. In Dead Fix, my thriller about sporting corruption, I touched on tennis as having been infiltrtaed […]