About me

D.C. Brockwell is a full time dental technician from West Sussex, an avid gardener and part-time mixologist, meaning he loves mixing cocktails of an evening for his wife, Beks.

He writes crime thrillers, horror and heartwarming small town romantic dramas under his pseudonym, Katie Simpkins.

If you enjoy crime thrillers, you’ll love The Met Murder Investigations, a three book series introducing Nasreen Maqsood.

Or if you like high octane action, why not try The Hard Way? This book packs a punch, when two female detectives try to uncover the cause of a spate of grisly deaths in London.


Or maybe horror is more your thing? If so, check out the creature body horror series, The Arachnoid Chronicles, involving genetically modified spiders wreaking havoc in the UK.


The Splatterfest Horror Series is exactly what it says: standalone stories with one thing in common: they’re all extreme in gore. From haunted asylum horror, Hellsleigh, to Christmas slashers, One Man Open Slay and Slasher Dancer Prancer, you’ll not be short of gory and sexy scenes.


Maybe you prefer your reading to be a little nicer? Katie Simpkins has you covered, with her Isle Of Canbrae Romances. Three delicious small town romances set on an idyllic Scottish Isle will keep you turning those pages. Book 4 will be released later in 2026.

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