GRAHAM BARTLETT

‘Unlike most writers, the bug bit me late on.

‘I’ve always read voraciously but never thought someone with my police-speak style would ever produce anything strangers would pay to read. It was only when the world-class crime writer Peter James urged me to co-write a non-fiction book telling the true stories behind his Roy Grace novels that I started to wonder.

‘For my first two books, and , given I co-wrote them with Peter, the hardest part was creating cogent prose from real-life stories. I was incredibly fortunate to benefit from Peter’s agent and publisher so, once they had whipped