Dear readers,

It has been a long while since my last update, and you must be surprised to hear from me again. My second book, Unnatural Ends (formerly titled Cat’s Paw) was released back in 2023 and should be available through all the usual channels; and now, I’d like to announce the upcoming release of my third book, A Pretender’s Murder, currently set for July 2025 in North America and September 2025 in the UK.

Yes, that’s "upcoming release", not "pre-order campaign". It seems as though A Gentleman’s Murder was successful enough that no pre-order campaign was required for its sequel. So what is this sequel, then? Well ...

It’s the spring of 1925, and Eric Peterkin is settling into his position as the newly installed club secretary of the Britannia Club. Until elections can be held, the acting club president is Colonel Hadrian Russell: charming, magnanimous, immensely popular, a man who began the War with four strapping sons and ended it with four widowed daughters-in-law. But when the Colonel is shot and thrown bodily through one of the front upstairs windows of the club, Eric is called upon once again to investigate. The quest takes him through Paris to an isolated Swiss sanatorium and back, before putting him on a manhunt for an elusive former spy. As it turns out, the intrigues born on the home front are no less deadly for having occurred while the men were miles away.

Does that pique your interest? Then keep an eye out for it! In the meantime, I’ll be over here working on a third mystery for our friend Eric Peterkin ...

20 June 2023!

After more delays than anyone would like, this is finally happening! 20 June 2023, four weeks from today, will see the North American release of Unnatural Ends. What this means for you, if you’ve pre-ordered any physical copies, is that you should CHECK and UPDATE YOUR MAILING ADDRESS. It has been a while, after all, and if you’ve moved in the meantime (as I have) you don’t want the thing you’ve paid good money for to be sent off to the wrong place.

You may have noticed that I specified North American release up there. This is because we’re also getting a UK release a month later, in July. (I think this means that those of you in the UK will have the satisfaction of getting your ordered copies in before Waterstones.) Inkshares is breaking into the UK market, and guess what they’re using as a battering ram?

That’s right. That’s me on the cover of the issue of The Bookseller distributed on the second day of the London Book Fair last month. The other guy is Fulton Ross, author of The Unforgiven Dead, which you should definitely check out because it’s a darn good read.

We’re just counting down the days now!