Next To Die is the first book in the Parker brothers series, and with most of the pages on the  website, I'll start with a cover blurb.

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Joe Parker is a Manchester defence lawyer. Sam Parker is a Manchester detective. As brothers they are close, with both bearing the burden of the murder of their sister fifteen years earlier.

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Ronnie Bagley is accused of the murder of his girlfriend and baby, and claims that there's only one lawyer he wants to defend him: Joe Parker. Little does Joe Parker know that Bagley is smarter than anyone has given him credit for, and soon Joe finds himself pitched against his own brother, Sam, in a race to outwit the most terrifying serial killer the city has ever seen. It isn't long before Joe and Sam's shared past comes crashing into the present in a pulse-pounding race to find out who is NEXT TO DIE.

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The  Parker brothers series was another new departure for me, this time with a new publisher, Sphere, and a whole new location and set of characters.

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What has always interested me when writing fiction is the conflict between two characters. This is something I exploited with the Jack Garrett series, as his girlfriend, Laura McGanity, was a detective. As a crime reporter, Jack wanted to find out about her cases. As a detective, Laura wanted Jack to keep the hell away.

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I returned to this theme with the Parker brothers.

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As a criminal lawyer, both for the defence and for the prosecution, I have had many disagreements with police officers, but despite this there was always as working relationship and I have enjoyed the work I've done with the police. But conflict is at the heart of the criminal justice system, which is why I thought it was an ideal background for a trilogy about two brothers on opposite sides of the criminal justice system.

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I hope you enjoy the trilogy.

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Next To Die was published in 2013 by Sphere, available in hardback, paperback and ebook.