Dead of Night

About the Book

Sixty-three-year-old night shift cabinetmaker Robby Burns is murdered while taking an illicit smoke break outside the railway carriage maintenance sheds adjacent to the beach at Hockley, a quiet seaside town on England’s south coast. Professional isolationism among the too many government agencies involved, resulting in an inadequate response to the increasingly frequent landings of illegal immigrants on south coast beaches leads Detective Inspector Dibs Beacon to suspect that the murder might not be personal but associated with the old man’s observation of such a landing and the need to preserve the secret of local involvement.

About the Author

Clive Hopkins joined the Royal Navy at age fifteen and served ten years with the fleet before joining the reserve. He subsequently emigrated to Toronto where he served in the Ontario Prison Service and also as an Auxiliary Police officer. Upon return to the UK, he joined the International Publishing Corporation’s Industrial Press Division as staff writer, later Editor and Group Editor of three technical titles. Since then he has published a naval trilogy about the Korean War and South China Sea (once more in the news) and the multi-title DI ‘Dibs’ Beacon series of whodunits.