Alex Coombs was born in Lambeth in south London. He worked in adult education before retraining as a chef. Alex lives in South Bucks but has family in Scotland and spends a considerable amount of time in Edinburgh and Argyll.
He is the author of seven previous novels featuring Hanlon in the police ( the DCI Hanlon and the Hanlon PI series). Murder on the Menu is the first of a new series set in, and around, a restaurant in the Chilterns