James "Jim" Green (born 3 December 1944 in Coventry) is a British writer and broadcaster who turned to writing as a full-time profession after a long career in teaching.
His first foray into crime novels was called Bad Catholics (2010 Luath), the first part of a 6 book series chronicling the exploits of corrupt CID officer, Jimmy Costello.
James has then moved to Accent Press to write a five book series on the development of the US intelligence services through fictionalised accounts of real events and people.
The series begins in 1802 with the Louisiana Purchase and ends with Winston's Witch, centred around the trial and conviction at London's Old Bailey of Helen Duncan, a medium, under the Witchcraft Act 1735 which took place in 1944.
He studied, again part-time and for three years, for a PhD in Education at Leicester University but, in 1983, the school where he was head teacher was completely destroyed by an arson attack and the final write-up of the research for the Doctorate was postponed, as it turned out, indefinitely.
Green retired from teaching in the 1990s and became a full-time writer first trying his hand at play writing but on receipt a three-book contract for a crime series settled down as a novelist.