Easy Prey

By Douglas Watkinson

Easy Prey is a modern English murder mystery in the classic style.
An elderly barrister asks Hawk to track down his missing daughter, Teresa. Hawk sets off to find her and soon believes that he’ll find her alive and well, not murdered, as he once feared. Until, that is, the sinister Richard Crane falls in behind him, keeping his distance. Is he following Hawk or leading him? Either way, does he have a personal interest in Teresa? Those questions take Hawk on a dangerous journey to the Isle of Lewis where even he, a man who led 35 murder inquiries, is totally unprepared for the truth about the girl he’s looking for...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Douglas Watkinson
• Release date: Aug 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370385300

Douglas Watkinson

I’m the author of The Nathan Hawk Murder Mysteries, each one a murder story told by the man hunting the killer. Hawk is a witty, belligerent, but finally charming English ex-copper who makes out that he doesn’t like being asked for help. It’s a lie. There’s nothing he’d rather be doing than solving a crime which has baffled the competition.I’ve also written hundreds of television scripts, everything from Z Cars to Midsomer Murders (or Inspector Barnaby as it’s known in some parts the world). There’s a list of some of the series I’ve contributed to on my Other Writing page. In at least half of them someone gets murdered!I started off as an actor and my first plays were produced while I was a student at East 15 Acting School. To pay the bills I also wrote the backs of album sleeves for Decca Records.It took a year after leaving drama school to get my first television play produced, a two hander called Click but from that moment on I was never out of work. I look back now and think how lucky I was...I had my first stage play performed at The Mercury Theatre in Colchester when I was 25 and went on to write several more, the last being The Wall, which caused some controversy on the London fringe.I’m married with four allegedly grown up children. Two of them are actors, one is a news reporter for Central Television News and the fourth is the director of an events company. The hero of my books also has four children and – surprise, surprise – they remind me of my own.I live in an English village with my wife and two German Shepherds. Like all writers worth their salt I work in a shed in the garden.