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Stephen Collier
ALLi Author Member
Location: United Kingdom (the)
Genres: Thriller, Academic, Crime, Mystery, Other
Skills: Performance/Spoken Word, Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Writing Workshop
Stephen is a retired police officer and businessman. He started writing crime fiction seriously after he had retired from the force and has written three books at this time.
He was awarded a Masters Degree in Creative Crime Fiction writing with the University of East Anglia.
Stephen continues to write in is genre and has recently completed an anthology of short stories available later in the year.
He has also written two screenplays and a series bible for a TV series - all of which have yet to be optioned!
For further information please visit his website
Stephen Collier's books
Driving Dead (Jake Jordan 2)
A woman dies and her family are injured in a road accident. Jake Jordan, called to investigate the crash, discovers that her body is laced with a new drug. He enlists the help of forensic pathologist, Dr Kirsty Kingsfield and her long time friend, Dr Tanya Nicholls to find as to who might be designing a drug that effects drivers.
Jake and Kirsty, still affected by the Tyler incident twelve months before, become concerned when more drivers die. They go to the new Detective Inspector Fletcher Randall to assist in the investigation of the deaths. Although initially reluctant, Randall teams up with Jordan, but he has his eye on more that just the enquiry.
Suspicions that the perpetrator is closer to home become apparent when one of their own is abducted. Will they all be able to save their own officer and discover the murderer before it's too late
Crimson Dragon
Eighteen months ago. Chinatown. London. A police raid goes disastrously wrong. People die. Today, those police officers involved in the swoop are dead, except the serial commander - Sergeant Brian Gibson.
In Hong Kong, a woman's body is discovered in a seedy downtown WanChai hotel. Detective Inspector of Police, Mandy Lee must determine who she is and who killed her. Lee identifies the woman as Andrea Ventress-Gibson and the investigation leads her to the UK, but Andrea's husband, Sergeant Brian Gibson is missing.
Meanwhile in the UK, Road Policing Officer PC Ed Roberts discovers a cyber-attack on a police database. But he is ordered to chaperone D.I. Lee. As a team, they soon discover their enquiries are linked.
Against orders, Roberts follows Lee to London's Chinatown, where they come into direct conflict with a Hong Kong underworld organisation - Crimson Dragon. Can Lee and Roberts discover Gibson's whereabouts and stop Crimson Dragon?
Blind Murder (2nd Edition - 2022)
In 1994 probationary PC's Jim Kingsfield and Jake Jordan attend their first murder where Bingham Tyler's stepmother is found in a house on a Northampton estate. Some think Tyler did it.
Eighteen years later, Detective Inspector Jim Kingsfield, now married tp forensic pathologist, Kirsty, is unaware that he and his wife are being targeted by Tyler, whose lust for revenge will have explosive and life changing consequences for them all.
Meanwhile Jake Jordan, now a traffic sergeant, is thrown into this revenge fuelled mix, putting his job to the test and discovering his marriage is on then rocks.
Tyler is a psychopath. Tyler wants Kingsfield dead for his actions all those years ago.
Will he get his revenge ?