About
Chris was born in Darlington, North East of England. He loves spending time with his family which include his three sons. He enjoys walking on the beach, listening to music, going for the occasional run to keep fit, playing football, and coaching his son’s football team.
When he’s not at work and at home, he loves reading (crime), watching engineering and construction programs (he loves how things methodically fit together), likes to immerse himself in horror / supernatural films and series which make the hairs on his neck stand on end, satisfying his strange fixation for unusual escapism, and possesses a disturbing obsession with drinking far too much coffee to feed his writing habits.
His books include novels in the Darlington-based series with DI Max Byrd & DI Orion Tanzy, and his Manchester-based series, featuring DS April Fisher
Background to his Writing
He wrote his first story at 16 (roughly 60k words) and it was terrible in hindsight. He wrote another when he was 22 and that was equally as bad. Then at 26, he started writing his debut novel, Someone’s There, and three years later, self published on Amazon. He then continued to write and now has a Darlington based detective series with his male DIs Max Byrd and Orion Tanzy, along with a detective series based in Manchester, featuring DS April Fisher, and has become a Bestseller, with most of his novels reaching the UK Amazon Top 100 list. He’s now writing his 9th book.
Where do his ideas come from?
They often come from real life experiences. His first book, Someone’s There, shows one of the characters losing their phone so ask their spouse to ring it. Only when they do, it’s answered by someone else in the house, someone who shouldn’t be there. This idea came from his wife always losing her phone and asking him to call it daily. He wondered one time what would happen if someone else answered the phone…