Love, angst and heartbreak in an original love triangle and that's before the police tackle the crime. Set against the backdrop of summer 2021 with Euro 20 and covid rampant across the country the nasty murder of a popular tennis coach pushes the police to the limit. Inspector Scott Bee assembles a makeshift team who struggle to find a single clue until the discovery of drugs hidden in the victim's car turn the case on its head and the investigation lurches into the murky word of drug abuse. With covid restraints, a station romance, a corrupt ticket agent and tennis club rivalries will Bee ever have the time to solve the murder?
Phil was born in Great Dunmow, Essex, a town famous for the Dunmow Flitch. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford before taking an economics degree at the University of East Anglia. It was at university when he started writing when he contributed a review of the film Raiders of the Lost Ark to the university magazine. Rather than a career in writing Phil pursued an interest in marketing and latterly pricing, before returning to writing during the recent lockdown. Dream House was his first full-length novel, Game, Set and Death was his second and the start of what has become a crime series set in the Surrey Hills. Murder O'clock takes the story of Inspector Bee on a new adventure. He lives in Surrey with his wife and daughter, and a monster cat called Monty.