Georgia asked Sally Spencer:

Why did you end the Inspector Wooden series? It one of my favorite series.

Sally Spencer My publisher suggested that I end the series there, because by then I had written nineteen Woodends, which was a lot for a single detective at the time. I thought it was quite a good idea, because there several unresolved questions (the most important being Bob Rutter's relationship with the poisonous journalist) which needed to be brought to a conclusion, and once they were, the nature of the team would inevitably be changed in a way which neither I or my readers would have liked. Besides, given the chronology of the books, Charlie was due to retire, and I had already planned to move him out of the stone cottage on the moors where I once lived myself to my home on the Costa Blanca. I never planned to abandon him completely, and I haven't. He has appeared in two or three of the Monika Paniatowski novels, and his next appearance will be in one of my Paco Ruiz novels (written as James Garcia Woods) which will be published early next year.

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