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Hello! I'm a British author whose crime thrillers combine psychology, suspense, and characters you care about.

All my novels are set in London, where I live. My first trilogy starred Zac Boateng and Kat Jones, two detectives motivated by family, who tackle organised crime and police corruption. LAST WITNESS, the second Boateng and Jones book, reached #13 in the UK Kindle chart in 2019.

My second series features detective Dan Lockhart - an ex-soldier with a missing wife - and psychologist Dr Lexi Green, an American living in London. These novels are darker, more psychological serial-killer cases, with romantic relationships as a central theme.

I began writing fiction in 2014, after previous careers as a diplomat, based in Iraq and Jerusalem, an ...more

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	Knock Knock (Detectives Lockhart and Green, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 812 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Witness (Detective Zac Boateng #2) 4.08 avg rating — 518 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bring Her Back (Detective Zac Boateng #1) 4.07 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who's Next? (Detectives Lockhart and Green #2) 4.34 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Souls (Detectives Lockhart and Green #3) 4.54 avg rating — 157 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life or Death (Detective Zac Boateng #3) 4.46 avg rating — 105 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Chris Merritt and 112 other people liked Maureen's review of Lost Souls (Detectives Lockhart and Green #3): "4.5 stars Around ten thousand under 18’s go missing every year in London alone, this then is (in part) the backdrop for ‘Lost Souls’. Two investigations come under the spotlight, in this excellent police procedural, one of them unofficial, (the col" Read more of this review »
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Chris Merritt and 12 other people liked Mick Dubois's review of Lost Souls (Detectives Lockhart and Green #3): "This story is set 8 months after the previous book and the world is in the grip of the Covid pandemic. After a supposed sighting of his wife (who disappeared 11 years ago when he was on a tour in Afghanistan), Dan keeps searching for her. He suspects" Read more of this review »
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