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Author: Colin Bostock-Smith

Colin Bostock-Smith was raised in a remote Devonshire village but made his way to London where he was first a journalist on the London Evening Standard, then turned to writing comedy scripts for the likes of the Two Ronnies, Rowan Atkinson, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Basil Brush and President Ronald Reagan.

Today he lives in deepest East Sussex with his partner Ruth, and writes novels about crime and passion in a remote Devonshire village, set in the 1950s.