The Enthusiast

The Enthusiast. (A Suspense Thriller) 'Peter Hill does a fine job with character, plot, atmosphere and suspense.'Publishers Weekly John Williams thought he was alone on the bleak face of Moel Celyn in Snowdonia, Wales, until the first sighting bullet cracked into the rock close beside him, seconds later he was dead... And the police have scarcely begun their investigation when a second victim falls to a rifle shot as accurate and as apparently purposeless as...
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The Enthusiast. (A Suspense Thriller)
'Peter Hill does a fine job with character, plot, atmosphere and suspense.'Publishers Weekly

John Williams thought he was alone on the bleak face of Moel Celyn in Snowdonia, Wales, until the first sighting bullet cracked into the rock close beside him, seconds later he was dead... And the police have scarcely begun their investigation when a second victim falls to a rifle shot as accurate and as apparently purposeless as before.

Sent from Scotland Yard after the second killing Chief Superintendent Staunton and his younger associate, Detective Inspector Wyndsor, of the Murder Squad begin quickly to organize their search, each officer working from characteristically congenial headquarters--Staunton from 'The Yellow Fox' in Bala; Wyndsor from a family with an exceptionally pretty daughter.

Meanwhile the reader has the eerie and frightening privilege of watching the gunman, without being able to identify him, as he makes his preparations for the third kill, and the next. It eventually becomes apparent that the killer is as enthusiastic and dedicated to his area of expertise as any elite sportsman and that he will kill again and again as he seeks to perfect his skills.

Always in urgent counterpoint is the detectives' desperate search for clues which will help to forestall further deaths.

There is a horrifying climax to events in this new Staunton and Wyndsor novel.

The Enthusiast is the third in a series of classic police procedural murder mysteries written in the 1970s when there were few of the modern aids to detection that are available now.
They are set in various locations in Britain.

The first in The Staunton and Wyndsor Series is The Hunters, which introduced the two memorable detectives, followed by The Liars. The Savages is the fourth in the series.

These books were previously published worldwide, by major publishing houses, in hard and paperback editions and are now available as eBooks and new independently published paperbacks.

Each novel is a stand-alone story, part of a series with the same major protagonists.

Some Press reviews of this series:
'... a pair of attractive investigators--the young and aristocratic Leo Wyndsor and the slow-moving but smart veteran Bob Staunton. New York Times
'I'd like to see Messrs. Staunton and Wyndsor in more books. They're a lot of fun--and they're good detectives.' Daily Press Newport News, Virginia
'Exceptionally well told, with satisfying outcome.' Columbus Sunday Dispatch.
'A really good thriller writer...very clever at the way he measures out clues...' The Daily Telegraph
'Bizarre murder and a full, meaty, thoroughly absorbing account of the investigation...' The Times
'To follow...the brilliantly inspired tracking of Hill's two detectives is a joy, apart from the brainteasing pleasure of accepting the author's challenge to identify the murderer.' London Evening News
'A really first-class who-dunnit' Essex Chronicle


Peter Hill has had a successful career working extensively in television for renowned British drama series such as 'Callan', 'The Sweeney', 'Z Cars', 'Public Eye', 'The Bill', 'Special Branch', 'Crown Court', 'New Scotland Yard', and 'Armchair Theatre'.
He has been a writer, script editor and producer both in the UK and New Zealand, where he now lives.
He has recently returned to novel writing, but in a different genre, and Killing Tomorrow, is the first of a new trilogy of near and far-future novels, 'Evolution's Path'. The second, The Ladies' Game, and the third, Procreation, have also recently been published as eBooks and paperbacks.