About the author

Since 1999 John has written plots for forty murder mystery party games (boxed and downloadable) with considerable worldwide sales, mainly in the UK and USA. The games are all now available as downloadable games from www.playmurdermystery.com. John has written the book for three musicals (Directions, Dream Home and 68 The Musical ) and a pantomime. Directions had its world premiere at the Lichfield Garrick in 2015 and 68 the Musical had its world premiere in Leeds in 2023. He has also written the libretto for an opera called Tir na Nog composed by Oliver Davis and one of the arias from the piece, This Mortal Man, was included on Oliver’s album Solace, which reached number 1 on the Classical charts in the UK and number 18 on the USA Billboard chart. John published his first novel, A Dangerous Fossil in 2022. It is a mystery/thriller which features sassy fossil hunter ‘Jurassic’ Jemma Thorne. A tale of discovery, greed and murder set on Dorset’s Jurassic coast. After a great response to his first book John released a sequel called Jurassic Jemma and the Mysteries of Time, with more adventures for Jemma and her dog Dino. In November 2024 John released the final instalment of the Jurassic Jemma Trilogy, Jurassic Jemma and the Trail of Evil.