L C Tyler writes both crime and general fiction. He grew up in Essex and studied at Jesus College Oxford and City University in London. During a career with the Civil Service and the British Council he lived in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Sudan, Thailand and Denmark, none of which places provides the slightest inspiration for his work.
He is now based in Islington and West Sussex. He is married and has two children and one dog. Sadly, Amazon rules prevent the inclusion of a dog in the author photo - the dog is easily the more photogenic of the two.
His first novel, the Herring Seller's Apprentice, was published in the UK in 2007 and in the US in 2009. It has been nominated in the US for an Edgar and was short-listed in the UK for the Last Laugh Award. Subsequent novels in the "Elsie and Ethelred" series are Ten Little Herrings (2009) and The Herring in the Library (August 2010). Outside the series, his humorous (non-crime) novel A Very Persistent Illusion was published in March 2009.
L C Tyler also writes occasional short stories; one of these ("Richard Remembered") won an Ian St James Award in 1993. Most recently his short story "A Fair Deal" appeared in the Sunday Express - http://dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/161680/Short-Stories-A-Fair-Deal