Jean Chapman began her writing career as a freelance journalist before going on to write fiction. Her books have been shortlisted for both the Scottish Book Trust Award and the RNA Major Award. Three times President of the Leicester Writer's Club, Hon. Vice-President Romantic Novelists Association, Member of the Society of Authors and The Crime Writers Association. This is the fifth in her current series of John Cannon crime novels published by Robert Hale and Crowood Press under their Hale Crime imprint.
