There’s something Kerry Wilkinson isn’t telling us. But I’m not sure he knows what it is.
Four months ago, the most remarkable thing about Wilkinson was that, at the age of 30, he was a part-time magistrate, handing out fines to local miscreants. A sports journalist for the BBC website,
living in Preston, he looked to be heading nowhere in particular and likely to continue in this direction for some time to come.
Today, he is the UK’s most successful self-published novelist, with sales of more than 50,000. Locked In, the first in a series of crime novels featuring feisty DS Jessica Daniel,
went up on Kindle on July 10, having previously been posted on iTunes. On August 9, Kindle Author, a literary blog distributed on Amazon, interviewed him at length. The same day, the Daily Express,
for which he once worked, dubbed him “the hottest new author in Britain”.
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