Client details
Nigel McCrery
Writer
| Robert Kirby |
Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, Nigel McCrery is a film maker and writer. He created SILENT WITNESS and TOUCHING EVIL and produced ALL THE KING'S MEN staring Maggie Smith and David Jason. He is the author of six SILENT WITNESS books and won the Edgar Allan Poe award for crime fiction. He is the man who arranged for the remains of TSAR NICHOLAS AND THE RUSSIAN ROYAL FAMILY to be brought to the UK for the forensic tests that showed they were the real bodies. Rusty Firmin was one of the SAS assault team involved. Nigel lives in London The latest in the DCI Lapslie series was published on 30th September 2010 entitled SCREAM. |
Scream 
Tooth and Claw 
Still Waters 
Faceless Strangers
| Publication Details | Notes |
|---|---|
| SCREAM: A DCI MARK LAPSLIE INVESTIGATION 2010 Quercus | As people disappear from his streets, and a handful of battered and broken bodies are discovered on his patch, Lapslie has no idea that he's up against a man who feels sound like he can taste it. He hunts people down. Men, women, anyone with a voice. He makes them hurt, he makes them bleed, he makes them scream. If the sound is ugly, he dispatches them without thought, but if it makes him feel good inside, he keeps them in his basement. Torturing them slowly, listening for that awful, wonderful sound. And sooner or later he'll have enough to make them sing his favourite things. |
| TOOTH AND CLAW 2009 Quercus Publishing Plc | DCI Mark Lapslie suffers from a rare neurological condition that 'cross-wires' his senses. The sickening clamour of sounds he can taste has smothered his marriage and stifled his career...and it's getting worse. His colleagues have written him off as a drunk - or worse, a lunatic - and Lapslie has quarantined himself in an isolated Essex cottage, only venturing out at night when peace reigns. Carl Whittley, 22, stays at home too, caring for his crippled father. He's got his own problems to deal with too: he's just tortured a minor TV celebrity to death and blown an apparently anonymous commuter to pieces. Tooth & Claw is a visceral thriller that will draw DCI Lapslie into a deadly game where the troubled detective might just discover that his gravest weakness is also his greatest strength. |
| FACELESS STRANGERS (SILENT WITNESS) 2001 Pocket Books; New Ed edition | From the creator of Silent Witness another gripping mystery featuring Dr Sam Ryan. When the beautiful wife of a local MP is found brutally murdered in her own home, the entire resources of the Cambridge Constabulary are brought to bear. Leading the investigation is Chief Superintendent Adams, who is determined to further his career by solving this high profile case. |
| CORE OF EVIL 2009 Quercus | Before his diagnosis, DCI Mark Lapslie thought everyone was like him. Now he knows he suffers from synaethesthesia - a rare neurological condition that has cross-wired his senses. The sickening clamor of sounds he can taste has smothered his marriage and stifled his career. At the scene of a fatal traffic accident, Lapslie's interest isn't in the recently deceased driver, rather the desiccated corpse found lying next to him. Something about the body stirs a fleeting recollection at the back of Lapslie's mind...he can't quite put his finger on it, but he can almost taste it...Memories haunt Violet Chambers too.She does what she can to stay ahead of them. |
| St John Donald |
Nigel is the creator or co-creator of numerous television series including SILENT WITNESS and NEW TRICKS for the BBC, which he also wrote for.
He currently has a number of projects in development. |
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| NEW TRICKS | BBC | |
| BORN & BREAD | BBC | |
| IMPACT | ITV | |
| ALL THE KING'S MEN | ||
| SILENT WITNESS | ||
| BACK-UP | ||
| BJX | ||
| BOLLYWOOD QUEEN | ||
| PLOTZ WITH A VIEW |
