The Birdwatcher has been chosen as one of the long listed books for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2017. Very chuffed to be among that line up.

… a short video explaining why I set The Birdwatcher in Dungeness. “I wanted somewhere bleak. Somewhere where the landscape could be as much a character as the people themselves.”

The Birdwatcher video. The house at the end is where I imagined the murder of Bob Rayner to have taken place.

I’ll be chairing the evening with Peter May this Tuesday, 24 January 2017 at 7pm at Waterstones, Kensington, London, when he’ll be talking about easily the best crime novel I’ve read so far this year Cast Iron. 

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Want a copy of the audiobook of The Birdwatcher by Whole Story Audiobooks? OK. Tell us your best bird-related anecdote in the comments on my Facebook page. Any true story that features a bird in some shape or form. The anecdote with the most likes by Sunday night 15 Jan 2017 will be deemed the winner.