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Chance to win one of five signed copies of Dead Man's Wharf in Magazine Competition

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Round & About Magazine is offering the chance to win a Signed Copy of Dead Man's Wharf in its May edition. Dead Man's Wharf is the fourth in the DI Andy Horton crime series. Horton and Cantelli are called to a nursing home where an elderly resident, suffering from dementia, claims she's been attacked by an intruder. Horton is ready to dismiss it as senile ramblings until he discovers that her room-mate has died, the dead woman's belongings are missing and her son, convicted for armed robbery, has been found dead in his cell. As if this isn't enough, Horton also has to deal with a series of threatening telephone calls to a television personality, and a mother's conviction that her son's death on Christmas Eve was no accident. Soon, to his surprise, Horton finds he is caught up in a complex investigation that has far-reaching international implications. With the pressure on to find a killer, and hampered by his belief that his bosses are lying to...

I’m excited at being invited on Desert Island Discs – Express Style

I’m really excited at being invited to do a radio interview today with Rob Richardson of Express FM who has asked me to choose the music I would like played during the hour long programme as in desert island disc style. I drew up a long list and have had to whittle it down to seven of my favourites, suitable for radio. I say suitable because some of the music I like is opera and jazz and too long for the programme. So I’ve gone for a mixture of my other favourite type of music, country and western, with a bit of Matt Munro and a touch of Abba tossed in. The programme is being recorded and will be broadcast next Tuesday 8 June. I'm not sure of the time but I'll post it here when I know it. I’ve been on Rob’s programme before and really enjoyed talking to him. He is also very active on the writing front, and not only writes himself but also runs a very lively writing group WriteInvite. WriteInvite is an initiative to invite absolutely anyone to write. Writers of all ages, e...