Sheppard Steve

Steve had his first book, A Very Important Teapot, published (by Claret Press) in 2019. He was 66 at the time. One of his many regrets is that it didn't happen when he was 26 but he spent 40 years not realising that the two keys to writing a successful novel are (a) "making it up as you go along" and (b) becoming a celebrity first, as that makes it much easier to sell books.

He has now "made up" three more books, Bored to Death in the Baltics (2021), Poor Table Manners (2024) and Lazytown (2025). The first three books form the Dawson & Lucy Series of Spy Thrillers with laughs, set respectively in Australia, Estonia and South Africa.

Lazytown is a standalone comedy murder mystery set in an eccentric English village.

If you like laughs, thrills, mystery and confusion, these might be for you.

Give them a go and if you enjoy them, please let Steve know by posting a review.

Thrills and laughs: a winning combination.

Thank you