Alex Coombs

Alex Coombs was born in Lambeth in South London. He worked in adult education before retraining as a chef. Alex lives in South Bucks but has family in Scotland and spends a considerable amount of time in Edinburgh and Argyll.

He is the author of seven novels featuring Hanlon in the police (the DCI Hanlon and the Hanlon PI series). Murder on the Menu is the first of a new series set in, and around, a restaurant in the Chilterns.