Get To Know…. Author Malcolm Hollingdrake

Learn about author, Malcolm Hollingdrake, via the By The Letter Book Reviews blog

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Welcome to another Get To Know feature and this week I have the lovely Malcolm Hollingdrake on the blog.

As a teacher, I have always written stories, as a teacher for many, many years, usually for children and editorials about educational practice. Initially I never believed that I’d become a published author and certainly not of crime fiction. I get anxious when I see a police car in my rear-view mirror! It was only later in life after self-publishing my first novel and winning a short story competition, did I feel as though I might have some ability. My wife, a specialist teacher of English, has always told me that I have a very individual way of writing and that I should work and develop it further.

I wrote two further books, both involving officers, DCI Cyril Bennett and DS David Owen who are based in the beautiful spa town…

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