Raised in a farming family in Northamptonshire, England, Jack Slater had a varied career before settling in biomedical science. He has worked in farming, forestry, factories and shops as well as spending five years as a service engineer. Widowed by cancer at 33, he remarried in 2013, in the Channel Islands, where he worked for several months through the summer of 2012. He has been writing since childhood, in both fiction and non-fiction. Up to the present, (2023), he has published thirteen crime novels in the chart-topping DS Peter Gayle mystery series written under the pen-name Jack Slater as well as thrillers, historical adventures a...