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In Cold Daylight was inspired by a conversation I overheard at the fire station where my husband a former fire-fighter worked.  The firemen were talking about how several fire-fighters from one watch had contracted cancer. Many of them believed their cancer was contracted from exposure to hazardous chemicals in the line of duty but this has never been fully investigated. I decided to blend the facts of this case within a dramatic fictional plot, creating a powerful novel unaware that a major International disaster on a massive scale 9/11 would be the catalyst to spark studies in the USA into this controversial area. Since writing In Cold Daylight , after a three year study prompted by 9/11, research from the University of Cincinnati has found that rates of testicular cancer were a hundred per cent higher and prostate cancer twenty-eight percent higher among fire-fighters. In addition, the researchers also discovered a fifty percent increase in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and multiple ...

I often get asked where do your ideas come from? Well, in this new video I talk about the inspiration behind my fast-paced crime/thriller novel, In Cold Daylight and I read the prologue. In Cold Daylight Was fire fighter, Jack Bartholomew's death an accident or arson? Who is determined to stop him from discovering the truth behind the cancer deaths of so many fire fighters from one watch? His closest friend, marine artist, Adam Greene, is forced to take up the quest. His mission to get to the truth no matter what the cost, even if it means his life. Here I am with the fire fighters from Red Watch, Southsea, my husband's former watch. The inspiration behind In Cold Daylight. A great bunch of guys. I hope you enjoy watching this new video.

Many crime writers take their themes for their novels from real life incidences and when I wrote In Cold Daylight it was based on the tragic true story of a group of fire fighters from one watch in Portsmouth all contracting cancer. My husband was a fire fighter at Portsmouth. Many believed their cancer was contracted from exposure to hazardous chemicals in the line of duty but this has never been fully investigated. I decided to blend what I heard into a dramatic fictional plot, unaware then that a major International disaster on a massive scale (9/11) would be the catalyst to spark studies in the USA into this controversial area. Since writing In Cold Daylight what was speculation amongst the fire fighters has become fact in the States, at least. The UK still has to wake up to this! The most recent research from the States confirms that fire fighters are at greatly increased risk from work-related cancer. This was first highlighted in a study by the University of Cincinnati , and...

How would you describe In Cold Daylight? It’s a fast-paced thriller with a controversial story line that has you on the edge of your seat wondering if Adam Greene will be allowed to get to the truth behind the death of his friend, fire-fighter, Jack Bartholomew and the other fire fighters from the same watch who have died of cancer. What gave you the inspiration for the story? My husband is a former fire-fighter and he and the others on his watch were talking one day about the men who had died of cancer and how several of them were from the same watch. They wondered if it was as a result of an incident they attended some years previously. No more was said, but that planted the seed of an idea in my mind. I thought what if it was true? And is it true? There is research that shows fire fighters are at a far higher risk of developing certain cancers than people in many other professions. A University of Cincinnati research team looked at 110,000 fire-fighters and compared them to other oc...