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Neil Richards
Neil Richards was lured into a life of crime-writing by his NYC-based co-writer Matt Costello.
Until then he had worked in TV series, single dramas, children’s animation, film, games, web, radio, interactive as a producer, story editor, story executive, development executive and writer.
Back in 2014 Neil and Matt pitched a cozy crime series called Cherringham to Bastei Luebbe in Cologne. An ex-New York cop teamed up with a single mum English web designer – that was the pitch, and Bastei liked it. Neil and Matt have now written 48 novellas in the Cotswold-based series, with more commissioned. The stories are also available as audio-books read by the wonderful Neil Dudgeon of Midsomer Murders fame. And total sales are now well over two million copies.
They’ve also written 18 novellas in a cosy crime series set in 1930 Sussex – Mydworth Mysteries – for Bastei. Again we have an American and a Brit at the heart of the stories: Kat Reilly from the wrong side of the tracks in Brooklyn married to Sir Harry Mortimer. This set-up allows us to have more action as our young heroes solve crime everywhere from Venice to Paris to the Highlands of Scotland… Is there such a genre as cozy-venture? Audiobooks are read by Nat Parker. Sales have now passed one million and there are more stories on the way.
Other Awards
Somewhere along the line, 4 BAFTA nominations, a WGGB nomination, and one or two other long-forgotten nominations. A win would be nice.
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Mydworth Mysteries Book 3 London Calling

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