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What Inspires Rick to Write Crime Fiction Novels?
As a drama teacher, Rick has co-written, devised, roleplayed with young children, teenagers, adults, teachers, and old folk – improvising, directing and producing sketches, performances and full length plays in a range of venues and situations – all telling stories. And now he facilitates writers’ groups, sharing his understanding of both the passion and the craft of making up and writing stories.
He is curious about the edge of things – those things still unexplained or disturbing. The way people and events connect in unexpected and unpredictable ways; the power a sense of place has over people, how history affects our lives, often without us being aware of it.
Ran wild on the beach and in the woods
Went to school up the back alleys to avoid the big boys
Read lots of books
Told lots of lies and stories
Went to live in the big city
Went to the university – ‘read’ history – realised they were all ‘his’ stories…
Danced the nights away and loved lots of people, mostly girls
Had children
Lost children
Lost and found love again
Became a drama teacher
A theatre director…
A teacher
Went to live in France for 12 years
Came back to live in the Scottish Borders
Written eleven books so far
Published nine crime thrillers all featuring
DI Mick Fletcher.
Always reading and telling stories…
Some Of My Books
A Man In Flames
FEBRUARY 1979
An ex-soldier is intent on vengeance but on a scale which is beyond anyone’s worst nightmare.
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DI Mick Fletcher is intent on getting back to London and escaping the rain sodden hell of Rochdale to which he’s been assigned.
Only recently he was sure a successful murder investigation would be his ticket back down south, but the case fell apart, when the suspect reveals an irrefutable – but very attractive – alibi.
A love affair blossoms, but is it doomed before it can flourish?
What game is his new sergeant, Sadie Swift, playing?
As the tension rises, Fletcher finds himself more and more at the edge – struggling to hang onto his job, his love . . . even his life.
Daughter of the Rose
FEBRUARY 1980
DI Mick Fletcher has been sent even further north to Penrith after his unacceptable behaviour in West Yorkshire.
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And even before this investigation has hardly begun, he’s reassigned to investigate the kidnapping of a young student.
Eleanor de Camville, Ellie, is a witness to this kidnap and inevitably involves her ‘not grandfather’, ex-DI Mick Fletcher in the search for the girl.
And what has any of this to do with a fourteenth-century tract, ‘A Pricke of Conscience’, which she is obsessed by, which foretells the end of the world?
In fifteen days?
A Ripple of Lies
JUNE 1981
A young girl is on the run after assaulting a teacher.
An Italian ‘businessman’ and his bodyguards are killed in a violent shoot-out.
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Meanwhile DI Mick Fletcher is surprised to be invited to a society wedding only to find out it’s a cover for Special Branch to send him to Barrow-in-Furness – the ‘longest cul-de-sac in the world’.
A new submarine is to be launched there on the 1st of July and undercover contacts have got wind that a terrorist attack is planned.
Fletcher insists on taking newly promoted DS Irene Garner along for the ride – but neither of them is ready for the mayhem which spirals out of their control as the day of the launch approaches.
Too many players in a never-ending game of blind man’s bluff which reaches an unexpected and shocking conclusion.
He has spent a lifetime in putting himself in other people’s shoes – real or imaginary and often enabled in this by other people: adults, teenagers and younger children.
So most of his fiction writing is simply a matter of inhabiting the role or the characters and listening to their voices and their inner thoughts and to continue to try to understand why someone –
‘ the man in a mess’
– does what he’s doing.