Hello and welcome to my website!

Lots of psychological thrillers (one of my own included) involve an individual, often a child, vanishing into thin air. But what if someone's whole family suddenly disappeared? That's the situation at the opening of my new book, The Stepson, my fourth stand-alone psychological thriller published by Inkubator Books and now available on Amazon.

​Nick Clyde has lost one family. Now he's ready for another...

On this website you will find information about currently available books and stories and future releases. There is a question and answer page, and a ​contact form via which you can get in touch if you like and/or be added to my mailing list to be the first to hear about new releases and offers. I have also included some links to other writers' books and blogs that I love.

Thank you for visiting!

!!New book review!!
​​Lucy Lawrie's intriguing emotional rollercoaster, The Child in My House, is out now! I read a lot of women's crime, but this is my favourite for 2021 in this genre. If you enjoy page-turners about family secrets, this is definitely one for you. The child of the title, little Kitty, is so adorable that you will soon be rooting for Juliet, the nanny-with-a-secret, to keep her safe...

About me

Having discovered early in my 'career' that I didn't have what it takes to be a scientist, I shuffled sideways into scientific and medical editing, which has the big advantage that I can do it while watching Bargain Hunt.

​I now live in the north-east of Scotland, by coincidence just half a mile or so from the tiny hamlet in which my great-great-grandmother Jane Renshaw, the wife of a shoemaker, brought up her eight children and where she is buried under a lichen-covered headstone in the graveyard. I hope she would not mind my borrowing her name.