David Baker

David Baker was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire. He studied Music and then Information Science at various universities and ended up with five degrees (including a PhD), five fellowships and a Professorship to his credit. After a career in higher education within the UK (interspersed with regular work around the globe), he retired from his final role as Principal and Chief Executive of Plymouth Marjon University in 2009.

Since then, he has led a portfolio career as consultant, lecturer, teacher, writer, reviewer, editor, musician, and musicologist. He has some twenty non-fiction books and a significant body of published, peer-reviewed papers to his credit as well as two academic book series which he leads.

David writes fiction for fun, with an interest in detective stories and late Roman Britain. Sometimes he puts the two together. He also tries his hand at poetry from time to time.

A Month of Murder is his first published novel. Broken Eagle volume I, is his second. Three more titles are in preparation.

When not working, David enjoys building model railways (indoors and out) and spending time with his growing number of grandchildren.