Alec Marsh

Alec Marsh is the author of historical thrillers including the Drabble & Harris series. His first book, ‘Rule Britannia’, is set against the backdrop of the Abdication Crisis in 1936 – and was described by Rebus-creator Ian Rankin as ‘a rollicking good read’. The Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency author Alexander McCall Smith noted it was ‘an immensely readable treat’. It was published in 2019 by Headline. The second novel in the series – ‘Enemy of the Raj’ – is set in India in 1937 and was released in 2020. The third Drabble and Harris book, 'Ghosts of the West', was published in 2021. The fourth book in the series, 'After the Flood', was published in July 2024 by Sharpe Books, and is set in Istanbul and Turkey in 1938. 'Cut and Run', the first in a new series of crime stories featuring a new protagonist, Frank Champion, set against the turmoil of the First World War, was published in November 2024 by Sharpe Books. Alec was born in Essex and studied history at university before embarking on a career in journalism. Over the last 25 years he has written for most of the national newspapers as well as for the New Statesman, the Spectator and Country Life. He is a contributing editor of Spear’s magazine, and lives in north Essex. Picture by David Harrison