About D. E. Meredith

I am the author of the historical crime series, The Hatton and Roumande Mysteries featuring the first forensic scientist, Professor Adolphus Hatton, and his trusty French morgue assistant, Albert Roumande.

After reading English at Cambridge, I trained in advertising during the late 80s but quickly grew tired of the world of Coco-Pops and so jumped ship to work as a campaigner for conservation causes, before moving swiftly into the press office at the British Red Cross, where I realised that my passion for justice was more than equal to  my love of Nature.

I think this was the seed of my interest in crime. If you’ve read my books, you’ll see that justice (or a lack of it) is an ongoing theme. Maybe it springs from working in war zones where crimes against humanity were rife. Working for the Red Cross meant that I got to visit many extraordinary places at key moments in their history: Afghanistan just before it fell to the Taliban, Rwanda as it was devastated by the terrible genocide in 1994. I ran the landmines campaign which, I believe, gave me a unique view into suffering and during this time I also met some incredible people, who gave up everything to help others.

Now I have teenagers and live a fairly simple life – a writer’s life – in a London village called St Margaret’s, which had its fair share of murders and writers. It was once was home to Charles Dickens, J.M.W. Turner and Percy Bysshe Shelley (but not at the same time!). The Thames, the verdant meadows and the miles of Victorian architecture are constant sources of delight, as well as that wonderfully intangible thing writers like to  call “material.”

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MEMBERSHIPS

  The Historical Writers Association

 

  The Crime Writers Association