Bill Rogers

Bill has written seventeen crime thriller novels to date - all of them based in and around the City of Manchester.

His first novel The Cleansing was short listed for the Long Barn Books Debut Novel Award, and was awarded the e-Publishing Consortium Writer's Award 2011.

His Manchester Murder Mysteries series features DCI Tom Caton and his team. Part police procedural, part crime thriller. They can also be read as stand alone novels. A Fatal Intervention, although part of the series, is more appropriately a stand alone crime thriller because of the limited appearances of Caton and his team.

His other works include Breakfast at Katsouris - a collection of short crime stories; The Cave - a cross over novel for teenagers, young adults and adults; Caton's Manchester, a unique book of Short Walks around the city of Manchester - incorporating crime scenes featured in his novels; and The Powell Diaries, featuring edited historical memoirs published in support of the MND Association.

Born in London with four generations of Metropolitan Police behind him - his grandfather was a founding member and head of the Flying Squad - he moved North forty odd years ago and fell in love with the people, the countryside, and the City of Manchester. He aims to capture the spirit, exuberance, and history of the region in his novels, as well as some of the dark underbelly in which Caton works.