I've got my fifth whodunit going out in chunks to beta readers at the moment and am wrestling with the sixth, which is trying to go seriously off-piste. I am not very original with names, and the series cribs shamelessly from the nursery rhyme One Two Buckle My Shoe. 

Most recent published was ‘Seven Eight Play It Straight’ in April – all the whodunits are set in Scotland, near Edinburgh, and are light-hearted fiendishly-plotted challenges to armchair detectives everywhere.  

I have a not-very secret weakness for SF and one day will invent a charismatic mystery-solving alien. One day.