White Crane: A Nathan Hawk Mystery

by Douglas Watkinson

When a young Chinese friend of his son goes missing Nathan Hawk is reluctant to search for her. He believes that Suyin Qu is an overstayer who doesn’t want to be found and that’s her prerogative. Plus, he admits, ‘the case doesn’t promise enough blood and guts to hold my interest’.
And then Hawk stumbles across the body of a man who desperately wanted to find Suyin. Soon afterwards he learns that she is a far cry from the nursing student she claims to me. Could her disappearance and the murder be connected? Almost certainly. But first he has to find her...

White Crane is the sixth story in the Nathan Hawk Murder Mystery series and it takes Hawk all the way from Chiswick to China in a bid to solve a murder.

Kindle Edition

Published September 1, 2021

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.