About

I was born in Britain and spent my childhood there, but since then, I’ve been a dedicated globe trotter. Currently, I live between Miami, Florida, and Sydney, Australia. This lifestyle isn’t conducive to keeping pets, though, for a time, I did have a cat called Louis.

Off Season is a fish-out-of-water tale about a disgraced, high-flying thirty-eight-year-old Australian-Indian detective, Ramesh Ryan, who is relocated from Sydney to a tiny New South Wales town only to discover that small doesn’t mean peaceful. That murder doesn’t take a rest in the off-season.

I can’t remember when I didn’t read books. They are my escape into other worlds with interesting, exciting people. I was a geek when I was younger and regularly visited my local library to check out new authors. At first, I lived off a diet of science fiction, but as I got older, I branched out and experimented, reading many different genres.

When I left university, I became a trainee journalist, learning how to write. Later, when I moved into films and television, I wrote scripts and then took the plunge and completed my first book, Scary Lizzy. I enjoyed doing this so much that I decided to continue writing novels. All or None is my next book, a follow-up to Off Season, the first in the Detective Ryan Mysteries series.

That’s a difficult question because there are so many, and they have changed over time. But recently, they include Amor Towles (A Gentlemen in Moscow, etc.), Lucy Foley (A Paris Apartment), Harlan Coban (The Stranger… one of many), and Lee Child (The Jack Reacher series).

These cover a range of genres, but currently, my favorite is thrillers/murder mysteries. Good books in this genre inspired me to write Off Season, the first in the murder mystery series following the exploits of Australian-based Detective Ramesh Ryan. The second book, All or None, is soon-to-be-published.