Evil Turn

by Douglas Watkinson

When two Grimsby trawlermen are murdered, an old police acquaintance asks Hawk to house a witness in the forthcoming murder trial. What seems like a friendly request turns out to be far from it and within days Hawk’s caught up in a huge drug deal. He becomes a likely IRA target and has severe doubts about the murder charge itself… The witness, Liam Kinsella, isn’t Hawk’s only unwanted house guest. He arrives with two officers from Witness Protection. One is an attractive young woman, the other a crusty bear of a man, Sergeant Bill Grogan. Hawk enrols his help to re-investigate the murder. And just when he didn’t need it, Hawk’s eldest daughter flies in from Tokyo having broken up with her long term boyfriend. Can he sort out his daughter’s love life and solve a murder at the same time?

273 pages, Paperback

Published July 7, 2022

About the author

I’ve been writing for television all my life, everything from Z Cars, through Juliet Bravo, Boon, Lovejoy, The Bill, Poirot - right up to Midsomer Murders, which I helped to establish. You can see a catalogue of my television and stage work on my website.

I also write crime novels featuring a high ranking police officer Nathan Hawk, who was 'required to retire' as we English so delicately phrase it. Hawk's a man with a fiery temper, biting wit and four grown up children he worries about, sometimes with good reason.

Strange, that, because so do I.