Em Thompson

After graduating from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in Modern History, I spent decades working at the sharp end of the music industry, While travelling the world I developed a passion for writing. I have now written eight very different novels, the first of which – Krill, a political parable for our time – is now available from the usual suspects.

Krill

A disgraced businessman’s chance encounter with an enigmatic stranger leads to a journey of political awakening and redemption. Set in a murky world of anarchist computer hackers, nothing is as it seems and no one is who they claim to be.
Krill charts the journey of disgraced businessman, John Tucker from the verge of bankruptcy to the pinnacle of power. As he sees the dictatorship he helped bring to power career headlong towards a cyberwar, he is faced with a dilemma – assist the New Praetorians in their lust for world domination or join the anarchist resistance and fight back.

Elliefant’s Graveyard

Convinced that two unexplained deaths on her London patch are murders, rookie police officer Heather Prendergast’s unofficial investigation takes her to an isolated mill town on the Huddshire moors where she unearths a web of corruption that threatens her career – and her life. Determined to become the greatest detective the world has known since the late, great, Sherlock Holmes, her aspirations are sadly not matched by her abilities. But despite this, she always gets a result… of sorts.

The Happy Thistle

When probationary police officer, Heather Prendergast, is enlisted by her estranged father to secure the returned of her kidnapped stepsister, she is faced with the most baffling case of her short career – and her most deadly foe. Beyond the swing doors of The Happy Thistle Restaurant lurks a sinister secret…