Ed Chatterton
I've been writing and illustrating children's fiction for almost thirty years under the name 'Martin Chatterton' ('Ed' is my middle name). In the past couple of years I have been mutating into a crime writer. My debut adult crime novel, 'A Dark Place To Die' was released by Random House in Australia in August 2012. It is published in the UK on September the 27th. The sequel has been completed (to first draft) and will be out in 2013.
I lived in the UK until 1998 and then spent some years shuffling between the US and UK before moving there in 2001. I moved to Australia in 2004 where I have been ever since.
“Frank, hunched against a bastard wind knifing in off the Irish Sea, isn’t sure at first where the sound is coming from. It’s barely light and a soft insistent hiss sits below the whining gale, like white-noise feedback at song’s end. He leans a little closer and realises the source is sand rattling against the charred skin stretched tom-tom tight across the dead man’s face.”
Ed Chatterton