Stephen Collier

Stephen was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, and spent all of his working life in the county as a police officer. He retired from the force, and the community he served for thirty years, in 2005.

After he retired from the force, he set up ‘Blueknight Ltd.’, his own business in training and development specialising in drugs and driver impairment. He retired from Blueknight at the end of 2022 and now prefers to write full time.

Published in various specialist magazines and books, the publications relate to Stephen’s expertise as a road safety specialist. He published an aide memoir for police officers in drug drive impairment recognition.

Stephen’s desire to write crime fiction culminated in his first book ‘Blind Murder,’ published in 2014. Since that time, he has published his second title, ‘Driving Dead,’ which was a 2021 finalist in the Page Turner awards. He later released a second edition of Blind Murder in spring 2022.

His third novel, ‘Crimson Dragon,’ set in Hong Kong and the UK, was published in March 2022 by Matador.

He has now also published, under his production company name ‘Five-2-Eight Productions’, a novel written by his aunt in the 1950s, Ruth Martin. ‘Let the Grass Grow Green’ is a romantic mystery, set in Cornwall.

Stephen has an MA in Creative Writing – Crime Fiction, from the University of East Anglia (UEA).