The Hard Way: An Edge of Your Seat Crime Thriller (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781913942441)

DC Brockwell lives in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, with his wife, Beks and rescue cat, Olivia. He works as a dental technician for Elite Dental Studios in the day, and writes crime/horror/action and adventure/romance stories in the evenings and weekends. After completing his dental technicians' course at Lambeth College in March 2018, he sat down and started taking his writing more seriously, completing five first drafts of novels in a year. A graduate of criminology and criminal justice studies at the University of Portsmouth, he has always had an interest in crime, specifically abnormal psychology. It was while studying criminology that he penned his first (unpublished) novel, which, he says, will never see the light of day. He self-published his first romance novel, The Southern Belles in July 2019, under his pseudonym, Katie Simpkins, a name both he and Beks chose together. His first crime novel is a contemporary and gritty crime drama.