Hello Silver Birch readers. I write TV shows, plays, and articles for magazines, but my favourite thing is to create larger-than-life characters (some say “weirdoes”) and put them into very dramatic situations in novels. My eight books have dealt with the likes of high-wire walkers, sasquatches, and sumo wrestlers.
I’m excited that you will be reading “Eye of the Crow: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His First Case,” which is the first novel in a new series about the childhood adventures of the world’s greatest detective. No one has ever attempted to uncover the great Sherlock’s early days, so there has been quite a bit of attention focused on this novel. I like to write about things I am passionate about, and that’s what I did with “Eye of the Crow.” It is a dark, edgy story, obviously has a larger-than-life lead character, is set in the foggy, dangerous streets of London, England in the 1860s, and features with those marvellous, misunderstand little beasts, crows – all passions of mine. It also has a great deal to say about prejudice, which is, to me, a sort of human disease.
I live in an old, Victorian house in the woods, way out in the woods, north of Cobourg, Ontario, with my wife and three children. We like to tell stories – the stranger the better – read together, and run around the forest with our wonder dog, Watson.

Interesting Facts:
During the course of my research for my writing I have learned how to walk a high wire (which I did publicly), perform on the flying trapeze, ride a mechanical bull … and eat like a sumo wrestler.