Phil Simpkin - Author

Hey guys; After a strange start to Saturday - finding Jack Ketch's Puppets as my free giveaway, when I was sure I'd checked the box for Death Lurks in Cock Muck Hill - and consequently ended up with both listed as a free giveaway until 8am tomorrow (Monday 15th), they have spent most of the weekend in the top 100 free books in Amazon Kindle Fiction / Crime Thrillers Mystery / Mysteries. As at 8.30pm tonight, JKP was at #38, and DLICMH at #66! I hope that this will give them a little more visibility for the build up to the Holiday period and beyond, whilst I work on book #3! Thanks to all who have downloaded - please remember - a review is an authors friend (hopefully!)

Hey guys; I was interested to find a fairly new article by a local writer and blogger, giving a more pictorially supported summary of Francis 'Tanky' Smith, who features in my current 'Borough Boys' series of novels. I have attached a link below, which is a lovely view of the images from Top Hat Terrace, 119 London Road, Leicester, which Tanky commissioned his son to build with the proceeds from Tank's investigation into the infamous 'Winstanley case'... http://breaking-cover.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/detective.html Given the time that Tanky was active, both as a detective within the Borough Force and then later, as a private detective, and viewing some of the variations of hats, caps and beards that he wore whilst going under cover, it begs the question 'how long could he have remained disguised?'. Given a population of about 64,000 at the time, and a small and hard town centre 'clientelle', riddled with crime gangs, he must have beco