In a sense what happened after the end of Murkmere had been continuing in my head ever since I’d finished that novel. But I wanted a sequel to exist in its own right and be complete in itself – a…
The Night Walker – Author’s Notes
I was walking my yellow Labrador, Alfie, one afternoon not long ago, near where I lived in Barnes, South West London. Alfie loves water, and we still go along the towpath that runs along the River Thames from Barnes to…
The Ice Boy – Author’s Notes
Edward’s father is presumed dead – drowned at sea. I wrote this novel shortly after my own father had died, and, like Edward in the first chapter, kept thinking I saw him everywhere, particularly on the Suffolk coast, where he…
Murkmere – Author’s Notes
Murkmere had been somewhere in my subconscious for a long time before I wrote it. But I didn’t realise this. When I was ten I had written a thriller (in six exercise books!) called Danger by Dark Water, about some…
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