Peter Morfoot

Peter Morfoot has written plays and sketch shows for BBC radio and TV and is the author of the "very, very funny" (Time Out) satirical novel, 'Burksey.' He has lectured in film, holds a PhD in Art History, and has spent over 30 years exploring life on the boulevards and back alleys of the French Riviera, the setting for his series of crime novels featuring Captain Paul Darac of Nice’s Brigade Criminelle. The fifth novel in the series, 'Essence of Murder' is published by Galileo in spring 2022. Widely acclaimed, the first Darac Mystery, 'Impure Blood,' was the U.S. Library Association's Pick of the Month for April, 2016. In Shots Magazine's round-up of crime novels of 2017 & 2018, award-winning critic and author Mike Ripley chose the second Darac Mystery, 'Fatal Music' (also one of Strand Magazine's Top 25 books of 2017), and the third, 'Box of Bones,' as picks of their respective years, declaring that: "Captain Paul Darac has become, without doubt, my favourite foreign detective created by a Brit since the late Michael Dibdin gave us Aurelio Zen." His own favourite author is John Le Carré. Peter lives in Cambridge U.K with his wife Liz.