Constable Catrin Sayer is looking for promotion and a new role away from drug squad work in Brixton. Coincidence and her Welsh background lead her to go undercover and assist the investigation. She is twenty-four at the time; keen, ambitious, trying to balance her work as a police officer with her interests as an artist, a ceramic decorator.
Allan Jones lives in Ontario, Canada. He was born and grew up in England. By profession an industrial chemist, he worked for many years as a consultant on international chemical regulation. He has lived in or traveled to most of the regions featured in the Catrin Sayer novels.