I taught English for many years and completed my debut novel, Death and Deception, when I escaped the classroom and could finally stop marking essays. These days I write, walk, and bend a bit in yoga. I have a husband and two cats, and live in the East Devon countryside. I am a passionate supporter of wildlife, and am vice-chair of trustees at a local animal sanctuary - after all, animals have no voice but ours to speak for them. With the publication of the second book in the Dan Hellier Crime series, I guess I'm planning several years of adventures for the team in the apparently peaceful city of Exeter, England. As I live in a small village, where the usual crime rate is zero, it was with great pleasure that I set the books in and around Exeter, an ancient Roman city which has seen its fair share of murder and mayhem over the centuries. Death and the Good Son takes the action out of the city and towards the estuary. Book 3 will extend even further along the Jurassic coastline.