Reader Buzz

‘Wow! Loved it. Fast, thrilling, gripping, scary.
— Gavin Hilzbrich

Boy, if you like Simon Kernick you will like this guy
— Linda L.

This is absolutely brilliant!
— Jeanette Slinger

I can't stand crime novels that have a long preamble before getting to the action and this one certainly doesn't disappoint in that way. From page one it's straight in there, bish bash bosh and continues on in that vein, so you are frantically turning the pages to find out what happens next.
— Sandra Hawe

The material I read was mad, frantic, super quick and entertaining.
— Martin Higgins

Gripping… Explosive… Page Turning!!
— Darren Elliot

This book is so cinematic . . . due to the punchy dialogue and the succession of crisp, sharp images which drive the narrative forward.
— Sam Eades

This was great ... Very much made me think of Simon Kernick and Relentless actually . Decidedly scary and asks some very dark questions: just how far would you go to save your family?
— Sue Cook

Biography

Born in Scotland, living in Canada and writing American fiction, I like to cover all the bases. My debut novel, SWITCH, will be published in mass-market paperback by Bantam TransWorld UK on July 2, 2009, in Germany by Heyne in August, and in Canada by Penguin in July 2010.

My short stories have been featured in Out of the Gutter and Spinetingler magazines and my first screenplay won a fellowship at the Praxis Centre for Screenwriting in Vancouver, B.C.

As a journalist, I have worked in virtually every area of the newspaper business from the late-night “Dead Body Beat” at a feisty daily tabloid to senior copy/design editor at two of Canada’s largest broadsheets. In between regular newspaper gigs, I have also contributed technology/humour columns to various magazines around the world. I currently reside on British Columbia’s beautiful Sunshine Coast with my wife and daughter.

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