Hi, and welcome to my web site.

Here, you'll find all you want to know - and probably a lot more - about me, my Lancashire-based crime novels featuring forensic psychologist Jill Kennedy and DCI Max Trentham, and other work I've had published as Shirley Worrall and Ruth Bennett.

If there’s anything more you’d like to know, or if you want to comment on this site, my books, or anything else, please drop me an email.  Writing is a solitary occupation so emails (the friendly ones, at least) are always welcome...

May 2007

May 2008

March 2009