Blood Ridden

A hard-bitten Western tale of harsh revenge.
Marshal Arnwood Deal is a lawman man equipped with both decency and honor but when he receives word that his much loved and respected family have been cruelly murdered, he lays aside his star and follows a trail of reprisal that takes him beyond the borderlines of any code.
The road is filled with violence even before a fiercely angered Arnwood finds himself amongst the ruins of his family home. In seeking out the culprits and exacting his bitter form of justice, the Marshal's estranged sister must be brought into play whilst he is forced to discover he also has a fight against both the law, in the shape of a deputized boyhood friend and a cruel outlaw that is the nastiest piece of work that ever strapped on iron.
Throw in an indifferent sheriff, keen to have Arnwood in lockup and a vengeful gang of bad men determined to see the marshal buried six-feet under and you have a foment of ferocious trouble just waiting to explode.

Auteur

It's not such a big step from pictures to writing.
And that's how it started out for me. I've illustrated more Western book covers than I care to mention and been doing it for a long time. No hardship, I hasten to add, I love the genre and have since a kid, although originally I made my name painting the cover art for other people, now at least, I manage to create covers for my own books.
A long-term closet writer, only comparatively recently, with a family grown and the availability of self-publishing have I managed to be able to write and get my stories out there.
As I did when illustrating, research counts a lot and has inspired many of my Westerns and Thrillers to have a basis in historical fact or at least weave their tale around the seeds of factual content.
Having such a visual background, mostly it's a matter of describing the pictures I see in my head and translating them to the written page. I guess that's why one of my early four-star reviewers described the book like a 'Western movie, fast paced and full of action.'
I enjoy writing them; I hope folks enjoy reading the results.