Scattered Remains

By Douglas Watkinson

This is the third story in the Nathan Hawk Murder Mysteries series. A local farmer finds an orthopaedic plate in a field he’s harvesting and Hawk reluctantly agrees to try and find the body it might once have been attached to. An engraving on the plate reveals that it was tailor made for a young engineer called Patrick Scott, who broke a metatarsal in a ski-ing accident. Whether he’s been murdered or not is another matter... As Hawk begins to ask questions all traces of Patrick Scott are wiped from the National Health Service computer. He doesn’t believe in coicidence, so who wants the world to believe that Patrick Scott never existed? And how far will they go to make that happen?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Douglas Watkinson
• Release date: Aug 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370637119

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.