Peter Grainger

Although I've always been a reader, I must admit that I first got into crime novels via television series such as Morse and Frost. 

It seemed odd initially, reading about characters that I had only watched before, and I found that I didn't always agree with what the producers and scriptwriters had done - but then I probably am one of life's disagree-ers.

 Having independently published three novels on Amazon's Kindle, I decided that my next project could be a crime novel of my own. 

In some ways it was easier to write than general fiction, the conventions of the genre making some decisions straightforward, but I still spend a lot of time developing the characters; to me, character comes before everything else in fiction