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Peter Tonkin

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Peter Tonkin's first novel, KILLER, was published in 1978. His work has included the acclaimed "Mariner" series that have been critically compared with the best of Alistair MacLean, Desmond Bagley and Hammond Innes.

More recently he has been working on a series of detective thrillers with an Elizabethan background. This series, "The Master of Defense", has been characterised as 'James Bond meets Sherlock Holmes meets William Shakespeare'. Each story is a classic 'whodunit' with all the clues presented to the reader exactly as they are presented to the hero, Tom Musgrave. The Kirkus Review described them as having 'Elizabethan detail, rousing action sequences, sound detection...everything a fan of historical mysteries could hope for."
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The first day of the rest of my life!

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This seems to me to be an auspicious day to start my blog. It is 3:16 p.m. on the 24th March 2016. As of 11.45 this a.m. I retired from teaching forever - after 42 years. No-one at my last school believes it. They expect me to be back. But that's not the cunning plan. During my years of teaching I have written 40 books - 38 published. I plan to keep writing and the target is 3 books a year Read more of this blog post »
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“Do you expect to talk to us, Master Musgrave?’ ‘No, Lord Robert, I expect to die,’ said Tom.”
Peter Tonkin, A Midwinter Murder

“monstrous hound.’ The stripling youth stood up and closed with Tom then, and with another huge jolt of surprise he recognized her. No youth come south at Hobbie’s heels, but his own sister-in-law Eve – Eve Graham as was, when they had dallied on the heather fifteen summers since, before she had fallen in love with the slow, shy charm of his big brother, and begun the relationship that had driven Tom himself so far away from home. Eve Musgrave now, his brother John’s new-made widow. Eve’s still grey eyes held his gaze as fathomless as the Kielder water. ‘Don’t you see, Tom?’ she whispered. ‘It was a hound, but a hound such as no man can look on and survive. It was the Barguest, Tom. We know it now for certain, and rumour says he wasn’t the first to die. But he was the first we have found. And so it is certain now. The Barguest is out on the Borders”
Peter Tonkin, The Silent Murder

“now. The burden of it was that if you try to follow now, and be lucky enough”
Peter Tonkin, The Point of Death

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