White Crane

by Douglas Watkinson

Overview

A highly contemporary story in the Nathan Hawk Murder Mysteries, brought to life by tv scriptwriter Douglas Watkinson who gave us Midsomer Murders, The Bill, Poirot and many more. This tale from this thrilling and accomplished crime series sees Hawk forced to act on behalf of his family, or more specifically his famous film star son.
In White Crane British detective Nathan Hawk searches for Jaikie Hawk's missing house guest, the mysterious and beautiful Suyin Qu. When he stumbles across the murdered body of an immigration officer, the case takes a highly sinister turn. The police say it's obvious: Suyin is the killer and that's why she's gone missing. Hawk isn't so sure.
He wants to know who the shadowy Suyin Qu really is, why she's in the UK and, crucially, if she isn't the the murderer, who is. And, incidentally, why does the man who follows Hawk around know so much about his family?
This very English detective travels to China to put these questions and he's blown away by the answers. But he still has to find the missing Suyin Qu - dead or alive - among the rabble of quirky, murky characters he meets on the way.
He'd also like to know why the only thing stolen from Jaikie Hawk's London house, at the time of Suyin's disappearance, was a bonsai tree.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940166018908
Publisher:	Douglas Watkinson
Publication date:	02/07/2023
Series:	The Nathan Hawk Murder Mysteries
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 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.