Paul Heslop

Paul Heslop was born at Dilston, Northumberland and joined Newcastle upon Tyne City Police in 1965 (now Northumbria Police). He transferred to Hertfordshire 12 years later. Most of his career was spent as a detective, including secondments to the Regional Crime Squad on Tyneside, then in the Home Counties and London. He spent eight years as Detective Inspector at Watford and retired in 1995 with 30 years' service'.

Paul has written about 'old murders and crimes' for a number of regional newspapers in Hertfordshire, Cumbria and Northumberland, and also had an eight-year series of country walks/local history in the northern Home Counties for a local magazine. He also writes for a national magazine, published by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), on health and safety issues in the workplace. He was course tutor in adult education at a local school for three years, and now chairs a small writers' group locally. He sometimes guests as 'speaker' on crime and the issue of capital punishment at local groups.

New publication: Murder & Crime in Northumberland - 2011

Murder and Crime County Durham - Due early 2013.

He has written and had published 9 non-fiction books:

The Job - 30 Years a Cop (autobiography) (2000)

The Walking Detective: an Account of a Solo Walk from Cornwall to Caithness (2001)

Old Murders and Crimes of Northumberland and Tyne & Wear (The People's History, Co Durham, 2002)

Bedfordshire Casebook: A reinvestigation into murders and other crimes (Book Castle, Bedfordshire, November, 2004)

Hertfordshire Casebook: A reinvestigation into murders and other crimes (Book Castle, Bedfordshire, August, 2006)

Cumbria Murders. (Sutton, Stroud, Gloucestershire, November 2007)

Murderous Women. (The History Press, October 2009).

One Man's County - A Perambulation of Northumberland (Froswick, October 2010).