David Matthews
I was born in the East End of London in 1953, and spent my formative years living in Shoreditch through the sixties and early seventies. I now live in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.
After working in the City of London for the best part of 40 years, I took an early retirement and found the time to indulge my fondness for the written word. This has led to the publication of three previous books, all different in genre, but all three an expression of my interests. ‘The Days of London Past’, is an historical look at London through the centuries using famous characters such as Pepys, Johnson and Dickens. 'An East End Boomer Remembers’, is a personal account of my childhood growing up in the fifties and sixties. My third book, ‘The Oxford Trinity’, is a crime procedural which has been well received. This latest publication, 'Death On The Path', is my second venture into crime fiction.
David Matthews's Books
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Last Stop, Lyndhurst
28 Apr 2025Retired Scotland Yard detective Joe Loxley’s peaceful retirement with his wife in the New Forest is abruptly shattered when, out of the blue, he begins receiving a series of threatening notes.
Events take an even more sinister turn when the body of a philanthropic local businessman, Roger Turnbull, is found shot dead in the forest. As the murder investigation unfolds, each shocking discovery exposes the creeping reach of urban crime, extending its ominous grip deep into the hills of Purbeck. Meanwhile, the harassment of Loxley and his wife escalates to new levels of menace.
What follows is a twisting tale of greed and fear, with the possibility of sudden death a constant, chilling companion.
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The Oxford Trinity
28 Jan 2025It’s 1986. Thatcher’s Britain, and the City of London is buzzing with energy and aspiration.
A gifted young barrister is found slaughtered in Temple Gardens, and Scotland Yard is called in. The crime has all the hallmarks of a straightforward grudge killing, but for DCI Joe Loxley and his murder team, it is just the beginning of a serial murder case that becomes increasingly high-profile. The chase for the killer ultimately leads them to the historic city of Oxford.
This darkly tragic investigation vividly highlights the unpredictable twists of fate.
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Death on the Path
28 Aug 2022Living alone in his single bedsit in Marylebone, young Daniel Felton is a young man in trouble.
As his financial problems mount, feeling increasingly threatened and desperate, he needs to get away from London fast. With some helpful assistance from his concerned cousin, he finds a welcome bolt hole down in deepest Cornwall.
At first ‘The Chough Cottage’ in Tregarris seems a welcome sanctuary. However, it’s not too long before events catch up with him, taking a sinister turn for the worse.
Daniel seems to have enemies everywhere, with even the cottage itself seeming to possess malevolent dark secrets of its own…