Photos of locations in David Wardhaugh books and extracts from novels

Wellington Street Arches

Finding the Past Finding the Past, the first Adam Turner novel, has been republished with new content. What happens when someone is...

The Cathedral Church of St Nicholas on a winter's day. The cathedral is named after St Nicholas, the patron saint of sailors and boats,...

The Castle Keep greets you as you arrive in Newcastle from the High Level Bridge. Henry II built the stone Castle Keep between 1172 and...

The Black Gate, Newcastle the last piece of the medieval castle's defences, was built between 1247 and 1250 during the reign of King...

novels by David Wardhaugh. Murder mysteries with a supernatural twist

Finding the Past, the first Adam Turner novel.

A steam train at Beamish museum in Gateshead

River Tyne reflections at low tide.

Picture of the Past, the fourth Adam Turner novel, available from the Amazon bookstore.

Grey Street is the main pedestrian route between Newcastle city centre and Quayside.

A rainy day on Grey Street Newcastle, approaching the junction with High Bridge.

A rainy day on High Bridge. In Picture of the Past, King's Bar is located on High Bridge opposite Ben's flat above the Duke of Wellington.

Heron on the Tyne. On a good day Lydia Eves, Echoes of the Past, would encounter this early morning visitor to the river.

The Staiths in Gateshead on a rainy day. In Adam Turner's novels, in the sixties, the Staiths would have looked much as it does today.

Lydia Eves was living an anonymous life in post-war Newcastle, until an adversary from the war broke into her apartment on King Street....

In Finding the Past, in 1964, Adam Turner questions the priest at St Joseph's church, Gateshead. The picture is the church as it is today.

Away from the famous bridges, the River Tyne has a beautiful shoreline to discover on a sunny day. In the Adam Turner series of novels,...

Sandhill leading to Newcastle's Quayside is mentioned briefly in Finding the Past. The picture is as it is today, but has changed...

The River Tyne features in all my books. Lydia Eves in Echoes of the Past lived in King Street in the nineteen-sixties and would see the...