"Backstory" is a book-length companion piece to the critically-acclaimed and commercially successful series of crime fiction novels set in Portsmouth and featuring D/I Joe Faraday and D/C Paul Winter. I wrote it in response to literally hundreds of e-mails from readers wanting to find out more about the books. Where do they come from? Why do they feel so real, so authentic? In short, what does it take to turn the small print of sharp-end CID work in one of the UK's roughest cities into page-turning drama? All this - and much, much more - lie within these pages.