Haggard Hawk

by Douglas Watkinson

Overview

If you long for an old-school English detective then you've found him! The Nathan Hawk Murder Mysteries are the work of renowned tv scriptwriter Douglas Watkinson who wrote Midsomer Murders, Poirot, Lovejoy and many more.
Haggard Hawk is the first in a series of sharply witty crime novels, set in the UK countryside just outside London. When Nathan Hawk is fired from the police service he wonders what he'll do with the rest of his life. The future is certainly brighter, given his new romance with a local doctor, Laura Peterson, but there's still something missing...
And then a neighbour does him the courtesy of getting himself murdered. The local police tell Hawk not to get involved but that's red rag to a bull. Pretty soon he's back where he should be - catching a killer.
Why not join this hard shelled, soft-centred British private investigator in the first of The Nathan Hawk Murder Mysteries? It's a crime series guarantered to keep you on the edge of your reading chair!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940166018915
Publisher:	Douglas Watkinson
Publication date:	02/07/2023
Series:	The Nathan Hawk Murder Mysteries
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

I’m the author of The Nathan Hawk Murder Mysteries, each one a murder story told by the man hunting the killer. Hawk is a witty, belligerent, but finally charming English ex-copper who makes out that he doesn’t like being asked for help. It’s a lie. There’s nothing he’d rather be doing than solving a crime which has baffled the competition.

I’ve also written hundreds of television scripts, everything from Z Cars to Midsomer Murders (or Inspector Barnaby as it’s known in some parts the world). There’s a list of some of the series I’ve contributed to on my Other Writing page. In at least half of them someone gets murdered!

I started off as an actor and my first plays were produced while I was a student at East 15 Acting School. To pay the bills I also wrote the backs of album sleeves for Decca Records.

It took a year after leaving drama school to get my first television play produced, a two hander called Click but from that moment on I was never out of work. I look back now and think how lucky I was…

I had my first stage play performed at The Mercury Theatre in Colchester when I was 25 and went on to write several more, the last being The Wall, which caused some controversy on the London fringe.

I’m married with four allegedly grown up children. Two of them are actors, one is a news reporter for Central Television News and the fourth is the director of an events company. The hero of my books also has four children and – surprise, surprise – they remind me of my own.

I live in an English village with my wife and two German Shepherds. Like all writers worth their salt I work in a shed in the garden.