Mike Welham was a magistrate for sixteen years and a chairman of the Bench for most of that time. Mike served in the military and also worked in the dangerous world of oil and gas diving, both in the UK and abroad. He is the author of The Crabb Enigma (the true story of the life of Commander `Buster’ Crabb, a frogman who `disappeared’ in mysterious circumstances) and Crime Pays. He brings his investigative skills to Death of a Scientist, his first novel.