Terry Newman is a former biomedical research scientist and lecturer who came into writing via comedy writing for the BBC and Channel 4. This part-time interest developed into a fully-fledged occupation and he finally hung up his microscope for good in 2004. Since then he has written extensively, both drama and comedy, for stage, film, television, radio and New Media throughout the world. Detective Strongoak and the Case of the Dead Elf is his first novel.
