Evil Turn

By Douglas Watkinson

This is a modern crime story in the classic English tradition. Nathan Hawk does a favour for an old colleague, a man he’s never much cared for. He agrees to house a terrified and bedraggled young murder witness, along with two SOU officers, for a short period before the trial at The Old Bailey. Hawk quickly realises, maybe he knew all along, that he’s being used. The old colleague, a man known for getting others to do his dirty work, has gambled that Hawk won’t be able to resist poking his nose into the evidence. He’s right, of course. Hawk is just the man to fend off an attack by the IRA, find thirteen million poundsworth of heroin and catch a murderer – no matter how much danger it involves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Douglas Watkinson
• Release date: Aug 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370207374

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.