![]() He moved on to working murder cases and arsons. ‘But I never had the confidence to start.' ‘I would sit on surveillance doorsteps reading Elmore Leonard and James Ellroy and thinking about the novels I would write,’ he says. Working first in New York’s then notoriously sleazy Times Square in the Seventies and Eighties (‘crack vials crunched under your feet when you walked around the block and there were hookers on every corner’) and then as a crime investigator for an LA law firm, Winslow found himself gathering material. Born on Staten Island, New York, to a navy officer father and librarian mother, Winslow grew up surrounded by storytellersīalding Winslow, a diminutive 5ft 6in tall with what he calls ‘a face people forget’, worked as a safari guide in Kenya and taught Shakespeare to summer students at Pembroke College, Oxford for a short while before becoming a private eye to support his wife Jean and their now grown-up son. ![]()
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