Straight after graduating in Spanish and French, I hopped on a bus from Cardiff to Catalonia and stayed there for over twenty years. I’ve also lived in Grenoble – researching the French Resistance movement – as well as in the Basque Country and Madrid, where I taught English and worked in educational publishing and as a travel writer. I now live in South Wales and I’m a translator and novelist.
The result of my lifelong interest in World War 2 and resistance and collaboration in Occupied France, The Unwanted Dead (Orion) is my first novel set in Paris, featuring Detective Eddie Giral. I’m also the author of the Elisenda Domènech crime series (Canelo), featuring a police officer with the newly-devolved Catalan police force.
Books in order of publication:
City of Good Death – (Elisenda Domènech # 1) – 2015
City of Buried Ghosts – (Elisenda Domenech #2) – 2016
City of Drowned Souls – (Elisenda Domenech # 3) – 2017
The Unwanted Dead – (Eddie Giral #1) 2020
Paris Requiem – (Eddie Giral # 2) 2023
Banquet of Beggars (Eddie Giral # 3) – 2024
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