Robert Partridge (writer)

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Robert Partridge (born c. 1954), known also by his pen name Peter Grainger, is an English novelist. He was born in England. He obtained a degree in English literature, and became an English teacher, teaching for twenty years at Cromwell Community College in Chatteris. In 2012 he wrote a novel, Afon, under his real name, with a protagonist named Peter Grainger. He wrote two more novels and a book of short stories but was unable to find a publisher, so he self-published them on Kindle. Partridge began earning about £30 a month from the books, and realized that to earn more he would have to write a series. He chose detective novels, though he had not read any, as he was uninterested in writing romance or fantasy fiction, the two most popular genres. He wrote An Accidental Death under the pseudonym Peter Grainger; the lead character was D. C. Smith, a police sergeant in King's Lake, a fictionalized version of King's Lynn, in Norfolk. He has since published fifteen more books in the series...

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