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Okay, off with the old, on with the new. Enough of this sabbatical business. Work awaits. It's not so easy getting back to writing fiction when you've set it aside for a while, at least that's how it appears, but I do seem to have started something which feels as if it might grow into a novel. It even has a title. Good Bait. (Borrowed, as some of you will surely know, from the Tadd Dameron tune that was recorded by, among others, Dizzy Gillespie.) Two principal characters, I think: Trevor Cordon, the Cornish policeman from Far Cry, and Karen Shields, Detective Chief Inspector in the Met, who has featured in both Ash & Bone and Cold in Hand. Missing people, murder, double-cross and betrayal in both high and low places – you know the kind of thing.

While that's all stewing, what other treats are there in store?

The spring sees last year's new novel, Far Cry, published in hardcover in the States by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and in paperback in this country by Arrow – April, 1st the date for that, no foolin'.