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Just a quick note to say that “Flesh & Blood”, the second DS Vicky Dodds book, is FINALLY out and available to read. A dead body in a golf bunker. A serial killer back from the past. A daughter learning about her father.When a body turns up in a golf course bunker, covered in blood […]

This year, my biggest writing focus has been on continuing the Scott Cullen series, but in a way that freshens it up for me.Right now, I’m just away to start editing the third book in the series, “Hell’s Kitchen”, available to preorder here, but let me tell you how I got there. Back in November 2017, […]

Hey!The first Max Carter book is out now!FBI special agent Max Carter is on the hunt – he’ll stop at nothing to catch a kidnapper with a taste for danger and a need for revenge. Fans of Lee Child and David Baldacci will be gripped by this heart-racing thriller from bestselling author Ed James.As Senator […]

Hey you! In a possible bout of insanity, I have started a free weekly newsletter. Not for everyone, but maybe it’s just right for you? Sign up at https://edjames.substack.com and you’ll get a blast from the innards of my skull straight into your inbox. Starting tomorrow. Get to it! Ed PS Hunter 3 is on […]

He’s back. A brutal murder. A haunted detective. A case that unearths monsters. When a young woman is killed, squashed between a London bus and a white van, DI Simon Fenchurch is called in to investigate, soon discovering the case has deeper roots than initially appears. With new gangs wrestling to take over east London […]

So I thought I was finished with Fenchurch. I really did. But no. I finished my contract with Thomas & Mercer with the August release of “Kill with Kindness”, and left Fenchurch and his family in a good place. Certainly compared with where he was when we met him in “The Hope that Kills”, it […]

You lucky, lucky people! “Heroes & Villains”, the eighth Scott Cullen novel, will be released on 3rd November, 2018. Pre-order it now: Amazon UK | Rest of the world Book blurb: After a previous case got him sidelined to a drugs investigation, DS Scott Cullen of Police Scotland’s Edinburgh MIT closes in on a long-time […]

A sadistic killer. An infamous victim. A crime that gets darker and darker… The body of a young woman is found in a London hotel room, the victim of a suspected poisoning. Called in to investigate, DI Simon Fenchurch soon discovers the case is far more sinister than he could have imagined. He should have […]

Hello you. Quick new post from me to update you on what’s happening in my world. Realise that I’ve been very quiet since April, so let’s fix that. Fenchurch Most of my time in 2017 was spent on that old rascal. Two novels, now called IN FOR THE KILL and KILL WITH KINDNESS, out in […]

I’ve been doing a daily blog called Morning Splurge. I’ve just put in a new books update which might shut you lot up about Cullen 8. Though it probably won’t. — Ed