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From the Norfolk Daily Times This is the press clipping that is referred to at the beginning of The Nor'easter - if you click on the graphic it is easier to read.

The Nor'easter has been published I've published The Nor'easter as a paperback on Amazon UK and on Amazon USA . The digital book can be purchased here on kindle, ibooks, nook, kobo, scribd, 24S, Thalia, Playster, bol, Angus & Robertson and Mondadori. It's been a while folks but I hope that you all enjoy it -  please take a moment to rate or review it once you have finished it. Many thanks Tom Please feel free to share this...

... this Friday 26th October 2018 I'm so pleased to announce that I've finally finished The Nor'easter . My editor, Janet Laurence, returned her review of my 147,500 word first draft at the end of August and I completed the re-work at the end of September.  I went through it again to clean and tighten, reducing the words from 142,00 t0 134,940. John Holland then performed a final proofread and here we are.

What am I up to now? With the second book in the series,  The Nor'easter , safely in the hands of my editor, Janet Laurence, I have about four weeks before I receive her full assessment.  I have picked up writing on the third book in the Shaun Young series, The Whistle Blower  (if you click on the cover pages graphic above, a larger version appears - it's pleasing to see them lined up as a series)

Welcome back! Hello everyone - it's been a while since my last update, but thought it was worth breaking radio silence to let you know how things are going with the follow-up to The Pink Herring.

Well, this was a first for me. Tonight, I was invited to be the star attraction at The Blackrock Bookies, an Irish book club hailing from just outside Dundalk, County Louth in the Republic of Ireland. The members include,  From left to right:   Anna Capplis , Grainne Hoey, Ruth Sands,   Margaret Moynihan , Patricia Keenan, Michelle Reidy . Missing from the picture are Anne Donaghy and Brigitte Nelson .

Having completed nearly 40,000 words of the next book in the series , The Elusive MacGuffin , I realised that I had set the book chronologically too far from the end of The Pink Herring. I had made changes in the characters lives that needed more explanation and time to bed in. So, I temporarily stopped work on the  The Elusive MacGuffin  and started The Nor'easter, which develops the backstories at a steadier pace.  This will be the next Shaun Young novel, picking up the story a few months after the dramatic ending of The Pink Herring . Helena Crowthorne eases into her promoted role as Detective Inspector, Steven Forrester takes up the acting DCS role while the formal process to replace DSC Spencer is orchestrated by Mary Hart. Shaun outsources the renovation of his canal boat to Frank Barker and his boat building business set in the Martham marina. And they all get involved in a new mystery surrounding the unexplained death ...