Jericho Road: A Nathan Hawk Mystery

by Douglas Watkinson

Small beginnings leading to grand finales, arrived at with plenty of humour, a chaotic family and a short fuse - that’s always been Hawk’s style. It’s no different in Jericho Road ... It starts with a stolen pocket watch that allegedly belonged to Heinrich Himmler. Hawk agrees to try and find it, but within days of poking his nose in the girl who stole it is murdered. The watch’s current owner, a bad-tempered old man whose dangerous behaviour and verbal violence, make him a prime suspect, is charged with the crime...Police are delighted to have such a straightforward result, but it seems far too easy to Hawk, too pat. He digs further, driven by a feeling that if he’d kept out of it the girl would still be alive.And as he digs he uncovers a far nastier crime than mere murder...

195 pages, Paperback

Published September 19, 2017

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.