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Make your crime fiction the best & most accurate it can be
Work with a best-selling author and former police officer

What you'll get

  • A review of all the elements of your crime fiction: police procedurals, investigations, character and plot

  • Suggestions for clear, practical fixes that fit seamlessly into your story. He’ll also catch those hidden details you might never have known were missing.

  • A fully annotated manuscript, a comprehensive report covering all his findings, and direct access to Graham for any follow-up questions.

About Graham Bartlett

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After thirty years of policing, whereby Graham Bartlett became Brighton and Hove police’s chief superintendent, a senior homicide detective and a public order and firearms commander, he is now a best-selling crime fiction and non-fiction author, and police and crime advisor.


His debut non-fiction, Death Comes Knocking, written with Peter James, was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, and Peter and Graham followed this up with the critically acclaimed Babes in the Wood. Since then, Graham has had three solo crime novels published; Bad for Good (Sunday Times Top Ten Best Seller, Winner of Crime Fiction Lover Editors’ Choice Award 2022 and Nominated for Specsavers Debut of the Year 2022), Force of Hate, and City on Fire. 

 

As a police procedure and crime advisor, Graham works with over 200 authors and TV writers (including Peter James, Elly Griffiths, Anthony Horowitz, Ruth Ware, Mark Billingham and the BBC), helping them inject authenticity into their work. He runs live and online crime writing courses, is a regular speaker at crime writing festivals and appears in many true crime TV documentaries.

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