From Green to Blue (The Nostrils, # 1)

Orphaned at eighteen, a naïve and solitary Chris Pritchard joins the Metropolitan Police in search of a family, friends and a regular income.

Despite barely concealed contempt for her hapless new charge, his experienced instructor WPC Dawn Matthews puppy walks him through a journey which is regularly amusing, frequently sad and occasionally bizarre.

On his last day of training, their growing friendship is put to the ultimate test.

From Green to Blue is told with a deference to realism which draws the reader into a murky world where the planting of evidence and perverting the course of justice are simply tools to oil the wheels of justice; and brutality and corruption are persistent if unwelcome companions.

The next book in the Trilogy, From Black to Blue, sees Christopher caught up in an maelstrom of police corruption; this is available to purchase on my author's page.

The author is a police officer who has served with the Met for over thirty years. Having walked the beat in the early eighties in some of London’s most fractious communities, he worked on a variety of specialist teams dealing with murder, fraud, witness protection and surveillance before becoming a Detective Inspector responsible for investigating the most serious cases of police corruption.