Q & A - What authors and books inspired you?

I
loved adventure and mystery
novels when I was a child and a teenager and this love of crime fiction,
thrillers and mystery novels has continued throughout my adulthood.  In
my teens I enjoyed the novels of Leslie Charteris featuring Simon Templar, The Saint, and those written
by John Creasey featuring The Baron and Gideon to name only two of his characters.
Creasey was a very prolific writer and also the author of Westerns which
I went through a phase of reading,
including those penned by Zane Grey, an author who locked together
character and land so that they were indivisible something that perhaps
also took root with me, locking my characters, DI Andy Horton and Art Marvik in with the sea and the
sea with my characters



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