DI Andy Horton is an enigma, reliable but sometimes unreachable, a little lost, but knows what he wants! My fav. kind of DI

That's how one reader describes Inspector Andy Horton who is featured in  14 crime novels with DEAD PASSAGE the latest to have been published in October 2018.  It's a great description and sums Andy up perfectly. To me and to many of my readers, DI Andy Horton is, of course, a hero. But not a perfect one, far from it. Who is?

Heroes have always fascinated me. It probably stems from reading so many thrillers and spy novels as a child. Then I married a hero, well he is to me, a former RAF Police Officer and Hampshire fire-fighter from Red Watch, Portsmouth, UK, who took many risks and saved many lives throughout his career.  It’s no wonder then that I turned to writing about a hero.

DI Andy Horton has also been described as 'an especially good series hero, a likeable fellow with plenty of street smarts and the requisite personal baggage - an abrasive supervisor  and anantagonistic soon to be ex-wife.' Booklist (USA).

Heroes have to have flaws, after all they are human. DI Andy Horton is rugged, a maverick cop who hates paperwork and playing by the book which of course gets him into trouble with his superiors, particularly the ice maiden, DCI Lorraine Bliss, his boss in Portsmouth CID.

Horton is prepared to take risks and is fearless in his search for justice. He's been raised in children’s homes after his mother abandoned him as a child, which means he has a desperate need to belong, a need that is in some way satisfied by belonging to the family of the police and yet he continually finds himself on the outside.  His experiences as a child have taught him never to trust and never to confide. He lives alone on his boat and rides a Harley Davidson.