A FORMER Huddersfield detective could be TV’s next big thing.
Bob Bridgestock, policeman turned author, is in talks about a possible TV series of his creation DI Dylan.
He has also signed a contract for five books featuring the fictional detective and could have one of them turned into a radio play.
Bob Bridgestock, who now lives in the Isle of Wight with his wife Carol, had a long and successful career with West Yorkshire Police.
He was a detective in Huddersfield CID for many years and investigated numerous major crimes, including the infamous Boarded Barn murders of two women by three men from Huddersfield.
He rose to become a detective superintendent with the force before his retirement.
In the last three years of his 30 year career, he took charge of 26 murder investigations, 23 major incidents and over 50 suspicious deaths, some of which were high profile.
He also worked on the Sarah Harper murder and Ripper enquiry as young detective.
His wife was a support worker with West Yorkshire Police for many years.
His first Book, called Deadly Focus, was a hit and in 2010 he found a publisher for a second book, called Consequences, in the Dylan series.
Caffeine Nights Publishers re-published Deadly Focus as the first in the series last June and he and his co-author wife now have a contract for five books from them.
Deadly Focus will be the first of these to go out as an audio book this month and the production team are looking at enhancing this with a view to a radio play later in the year.
Mr Bridgestock said: “Although the books run as a series they also stand alone.
“We have representation now in all English speaking countries of the world as well as a literary agent in Europe, South Korea and Japan.
“We are also in the throes of talking to a TV production team about Dylan becoming a TV series.
“Book three, White Lilies, is with the publisher, book four under a re-write and book five being written at the minute.”
The couple are doing a UK book signing tour to launch Consequences starting this weekend in Waterstones in Newport, Isle of Wight, moving to the north of England for two weeks and ending the tour on the April 23 in Waterstones, Stratford Upon Avon at the anniversary celebrations for Shakespeare’s life on the anniversary of his death.
They are holding their biggest book signing event at Waterstones in Huddersfield Kingsgate on Saturday, April 21, when one of the guests is a woman who always wanted to be a policewoman and is now a named character in the new book.
Huddersfield girls Hannah Jordan, Lucy Kate Jordan and Harriet Adamson are also named characters.
Mr Bridgestock has also been enlisted to help renowned TV playwright Sally Wainwright with a police drama she is starting work on.
The Dylan books offer an insight into the real world of British policing mixed with cunning plots and human relationships.
