The first of the Admiralty Arch thrillers is out now.

Four Wise Monkeys is a crime story in a new and unique format that includes ‘real world’ material (maps, diagrams of the murder scene, obituaries, security files on the protagonists etc) in the main text. This material gives the assiduous reader the ability to work out the crime before the team and to explore the relationships between the characters.

Four Wise Monkeys will be the first in a series of crime thrillers featuring an insider Civil Service team operating in the grey world between the police, politicians and the secret services.

Meet....

Dee, (Deborah Greenpath) a brilliant and idealistic new recruit, a young, female Morse, wondering where her high-flying career will lead and whether the attraction she feels for one of the suspects in the case is entirely professional

Her immediate boss, James Grey, an older, wiser, and curiously independent Civil Servant, recently separated from his wife, with secrets of his own

Jason Tila, even younger than Dee, who can hack into any internet system, with a keen interest in thrash metal.

Four Wise Monkeys tells the story of a prominent British Artist beaten to death in his studio. How, and why did he die? Burglary gone wrong? Or something much more sinister – and just how dangerous is the link between his death and his lifelong friend, the Prime Minister?