Scott Hunter was born in Romford, Essex in 1956. His writing career was kick-started after he won first prize in the Sunday Express Short Story Competition. He divides his time between writing, IT contract work and drumming. He has recorded with internationally renowned rock band ‘Jethro Tull’ and appeared in concert with 70’s popsters ‘Mungo Jerry’.
The first book in a brand new crime/espionage crossover series, The Fragile Cage, was published in August/September 2022. The second in this series, The Fragile Coast, will be published in May 2025. The tenth novel in the popular DCI Brendan Moran crime series, In the Key of Death, was published in May 2024.
Scott is currently working on the eleventh novel in the series, due for publication in December, 2025.
He lives in Berkshire with his wife, Katherine, and a modest collection of drums. He is a committed Christian and is actively involved in his local church in Reading.
Scott was long listed for the Times/Chicken House Children’s Novel Competition for ‘The Ley Lines of Lushbury’ and won the Sunday Express Short Story Competition a few years back for his historical entry set in the English Civil War (you can view the Newspaper). ‘The Trespass‘ is an Amazon top 20 Bestseller, reaching number 14 in the overall Amazon chart in 2012. Scott was shortlisted for the prestigious CWA Margery Allingham short mystery competition in 2016 and was announced as the winner of the 2022 CWA Margery Allingham short mystery competition. You can read his winning entry on the CWA Website here or, if you prefer, download your own pdf copy here.
Scott has written about his parallel life as a drummer in his autobiography (or maybe collection of musical anecdotes is more accurate), Rattle and Drum. Copies available on request.
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