I write crime stories about ordinary people pushed to their limits. My current series follows Ray Holder, a former investigator whose sense of justice burns hotter than his good sense. The stories are set on a fictional Birmingham estate—a place where the lines between right and wrong blur fast, and guilt has a long memory. Through Ray’s struggle, I try to give voice to the overlooked and the forgotten, the people who slip through the cracks. When I’m not writing, I’m probably reading or hunting for old puzzles and games in charity shops.