I write psychological thrillers — the kind with twists I hope you don't see coming, set in places I either know well or have made up entirely. The most recent is Deep Blue Lies, set in a luxury Greek resort I had to build first (long story — see /boxes). Before that, the Audible #1 Little Ghosts, the Amazon #1 The Things You Find in Rockpools (now being adapted for the screen), and a slowly-growing pile of standalones and series.
[Gregg: I've drafted three paragraphs here based on your Substack and the existing site. Mark up what's wrong / missing / should go.] I grew up in the UK and spent most of my twenties trying not to settle down. A summer working as a windsurfing instructor on a Greek island gave me the resort that Deep Blue Lies is set in (different island, fictional resort — but the manager who shouted at us all summer turns up in the book, mostly unaltered). I came back to England, did the proper-job thing for a while, then started writing.
I now live with my family on the wild north coast of Spain — Atlantic, not Mediterranean, which surprises people. I write from a small room in the house with one window that catches the morning sun, which I have to put a roller blind over, which I once managed to install with a pair of scissors and a near-amputated finger.
I send a letter on Substack every couple of weeks about whatever's going on — the next book, the project I've got obsessed with, what I'm reading, the weather. It's here, free, and a fairly accurate window into how I spend my days.
A short list of Substack posts that say something about my approach. There are dozens more on Substack.