About Simon Michael

During Simon’s years of practice at the Bar he has prosecuted and defended enough murderers, armed robbers, con artists and other assorted villainy to provide him with a lifetime of true crime stories. Simon had several books published in the UK and the USA in the 1990s and his short story Split was shortlisted for the Cosmopolitan-Perrier Short Story Award. He spent the next 20 years as a full-time lawyer, but in 2016 he was finally able to retire from the Bar to devote himself to full-time writing. The Brief (September 2015), An Honest Man (July 2016) and The Lighterman (May 2017) are the first three books in the Charles Holborne series, set in the dangerous gangland streets of 1960s London.

Simon’s latest book, Corrupted, published in June 2018.