The first six books are entitled Haggard Hawk,[2] Easy Prey, Scattered Remains, Evil Turn, Jericho Road, and White Crane.
Watkinson has written hundreds of scripts for television, contributing to Lovejoy, Boon, Juliet Bravo, Agatha Christie's Poirot and Midsomer Murders.
He has written four stage plays: Let's Do It My Way, Caesar and Me, The Dragon's Tail and The Wall[4] Watkinson was born into an army family and his father served throughout World War II and beyond.
[5] His death is the inspiration for Watkinson's play The Wall,[6] in which a middle aged man visits a military cemetery in Ramleh, Israel and meets a young British soldier who turns out to be his father.
His favourite work has been Midsomer Murders, Boon (for which he wrote the establishing episode), Lovejoy, Forever Green and Maybury (which was Kenneth Branagh's first on-screen appearance).