The author was educated at Reading Grammar School in the town of Reading in Berkshire, and Oxford University, and worked for many years in the entertainment industry, first in the theatre as a director, later in films and television. He now lives and writes in southern Italy.
These are 12 tales drawn from mythology, mostly of misguided love: Apollo who falls passionately for the frigid Daphne. Acteaon's lust for Diana, Goddess of chastity. Orpheus and his lost love Euridice.
These stories, like the television series based on Colin Dexter's Morse novels, are set in Oxford. Unlike Raymond Chandler's and Colin Dexter's novels these are suspense stories of the Hitchcock variety.
