About Wendy Turner-Hargreaves

Her DI Robin Scott series begins with Justified, a dark detective thriller set in the fictional town of Broadstone. At the centre of the series is Robin Scott, a detective living with the consequences of one fatal mistake. His cases are never just about finding out who did it. They are about guilt, grief, motive, obsession, and the stories people tell themselves when they believe they had no choice.

Wendy has always been drawn to the darker edges of human behaviour. Not the neatly packaged version of crime where good and evil sit in separate rooms, but the messier ground in between: victims who are difficult to mourn, killers who make a terrible kind of sense, and investigators who bring their own wounds into every case.

Before writing crime fiction, Wendy worked across theatre, radio drama, magazines, newspapers and marketing. That background shaped the way she writes: with a focus on character, tension, motive and the small details that reveal what people are really trying to hide.

Her debut crime thriller, Justified, introduces DI Robin Scott as he investigates the murder of wealthy businesswoman Ursula Harrison, a woman with enemies in every corner of her carefully controlled life. Wendy is currently editing the next DI Robin Scott novel.

When she is not writing, editing, overthinking plot twists or researching something mildly suspicious for a crime scene, Wendy can usually be found reading, working on far too many creative projects, or pretending she is only going to make one more cup of tea.

Start the DI Robin Scott series

A detective haunted by one fatal mistake.
A victim almost everyone had reason to hate.
A killer who believes murder can be justified.

Begin with Justified.