About the Author

Richard Watkins is an avid reader of military history. During fifty years as professional tax consultant, traveller, rally driver and navigator, and medieval re-enactor, Richard has developed a strong love of wild, desolate places and circumstances demanding immense human endurance. A member of the Historical Novel Society of Australia, Richard has been writing since early childhood, including a medieval trilogy. The Dead Mrs McIntyre is his first book in the gothic/mystery genre. Richard has two adult daughters and lives in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, where he and his artist wife have converted a 138-year-old stone church into their private library and art gallery.