David James Buckley
Author of the Inspector Bible crime series
"This riveting page turner is a must read ... I couldn't put it down in my quest to bring the crime to a conclusion." Bradford Telegraph & Argus
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This riveting page turner is a must read ... I couldn't put it down in my quest to bring the crime to a conclusion. (Read Here)
SALLY CLIFFORD, BRADFORD TELEGRAPH & ARGUS
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The West Yorkshire setting is beautifully depicted ... a compelling and sometimes shocking read.
ANNA CAIG, SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH
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I am impressed with the great warm thumping heart of this story ... the characters are subtle and we care what happens to them ... gripping, complex and engaging.
LINDA LEE WELCH, NOVELIST & POET
ABOUT
David was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and studied English at Exeter University before taking up a teaching post in Berkshire.
His writing career began in his twenties when he won a BBC Radio Leeds radio play competition with A Springtime Disappointment Round and About Heckmanthorpe. This led to two further radio plays, Jack’s Wedding and Testing for Rust, both broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
He later reviewed fiction for The Observer and wrote for The Independent, The Guardian, New Statesman and Society, The Yorkshire Post, and The Times Educational Supplement.
David has also had short stories and poetry published. His short story Broken Bracken was highly commended in the Crime Writers’ Association’s Margery Allingham Short Story Competition.
He turned to crime fiction after gaining a distinction in the MA Writing programme at Sheffield Hallam University. His debut novel, Stone and Water, set in a fictional West Yorkshire city in the 1950s, emerged from this period of study. The second novel in the Inspector Bible series, Surviving Angel, is currently in the process of publication.
David lives in Sheffield with his wife. They have three grown-up children and twin granddaughters.
STONE AND WATER
It’s the fifties. No mobiles. No email. Easy to hide. Perhaps.
A young woman has fled her tyrannical father to hide in the Pennines. As she stands by a grey moorland reservoir a man’s face appears in the middle of the lapping water crying for help. It’s a face she hasn’t seen for a year, a face from her life 300 miles away back in Devon. She runs, and a van looms out of the mist and out of her past.
When Carol takes her story to the police, she meets Jim Bible, a self-doubting police inspector struggling to maintain hope in 1950s Britain. Drawn into Carol’s story of rebuilding her life, the married policeman feels compromised by his attraction towards her. And he has to balance investigating a crime that may not have happened against those that have.
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"I am impressed with the great warm thumping heart of this story ... the characters are subtle and we care what happens to them ... gripping, complex and engaging." (Linda Lee Welch, novelist and poet)
"This riveting page turner is a must read ... I couldn’t put it down in my quest to bring the crime to a conclusion." (Bradford Telegraph & Argus)
"The West Yorkshire setting is beautifully depicted ... a compelling and sometimes shocking read." (Sheffield Telegraph)
SURVIVING ANGEL
Coming soon...
A man and woman dead in a cottage. An infant mesmerised by clothes tumbling in a washing machine. A child on the run. And thirteen years after 1945, World War Two still casts a long shadow.
When Acting Chief Inspector Jim Bible is called to a local murder, he doesn’t expect it to lead to a nationwide hunt and one of Britain’s darkest secrets of World War Two.
But Bible is going through a bad time. He has to prove himself as Acting Chief Inspector. He is troubled by his wife’s involvement in the newly formed campaign for nuclear disarmament. And he misses his old sidekick Bill Ward who blames Bible for his own lack of promotion.
Bible has to find himself. And when his son is arrested for murder in the barracks where he is doing National Service, Bible realises he knows what he stands for.
And only he can connect a seemingly random series of killings across the country to the murder of an old farm worker 14 years earlier.
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