My latest book – Potts & McCann Investigate the Hunting Games –  is a novel for young adults (or anyone) published on Amazon this week as both paperback and ebook. It’s taken nearly a year to write, partly because that’s just how it is, and also due to the great deal of research I did on animal rights and environmental issues.

The two main characters – students Zara Potts and Ali McCann – are caught up in a mass shooting while working in Strasburg during the summer holidays and with the help of sniffer dog Klio (belonging to Ali’s uncle) the pair become involved in an international search for the criminals behind the incident. Along the way they visit a ski lodge in Romania where the Hunting Games – a TV reality show – is being filmed and are invited to participate. Here they discover a wealthy businessman is not only sponsoring the show but is also head of a conspiracy to import endangered species and other crimes.

The story and characters are fictional but the crimes depicted are real, though the plot is fast=paced and never polemical. The relationship between Potts and McCann is, as with many male-female protagonists in crime fiction, fraught with tension but nevertheless they make a good team.