In seventeen years of writing I can safely say that it has never happened to me before that I became so consumed by a story that I put my current one on hold.

In August last year I discussed my horror novel in the works ‘The Wraith in the Woods’, and while that story is still very much alive, I’ve hit the proverbial pause button on it in favour of my brand new novel ‘Death’s Edict’.

This is a story that began forming a few months ago when I found myself enjoying a lot of foreign films and...