Matthew Hole

Matthew Hole has been many things and he's kept his eyes and ears open the whole time.

He currently lives in the West Country of England, where he grew up, but has a history of not sitting still. He's lived in capital cities (London, Rome) and little villages (Trull, England; Lousa, Portugal) and regularly potters around Cornwall in a campervan.

He's worked in shops (from Sainsbury's to Madame Tussaud's Waxworks), offices (as an accountant and a probation services officer), classrooms (as an EFL and primary school teacher) and on film sets (as an extra). Once he even worked for free (with the homeless, in Cleveland, Ohio).

His greatest revelation was discovering the English language whilst training as a teacher of English as a foreign language. Invisible grammar rules he'd been using his whole life suddenly made themselves known to him, until everything made sense - a bit like identifying the clue that was hiding in plain sight the whole time. . .

His passion for language, characters, the English countryside and tricky whodunnits has led him to become the author of mysteries of his own.