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Tony Thistlewood
After forty years in the finance industry, Tony retired and began a new career writing fiction.
A student of genealogy and history, his plots are often weaved around these dual themes.
"Stealing Tomorrow’s Thunder" is his second novel, while his third, "When the Time is Ripe", is a mystery set in sixteenth century England. Both these books have received five star ratings from Readers’ Favorites.
Tony has also written two screenplays and is currently venturing into non-fiction with a book about the facts and fictions of the Tudor era.
Born and educated in England, Tony now lives in Australia with his wife, Isabel. They have three children and four grandchildren.
Reviewed by Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite
Stealing Tomorrow's Thunder by Tony Thistlewood is a literary mystery/police procedural set in modern-day England. Rosalind Parsons has left Oxford before completing her degree and is now registered as a new student in the smaller university which her brother, Rupert, attended before he allegedly committed suicide. Rosalind's tutor, Howard Colebrook, shares her and her brother's interest in identifying the real author(s) behind Shakespeare's works. Colebrook was also Rupert's tutor and was nicknamed "the groper" by a young woman who was sent down after her claims were proven false. Rosalind is convinced her brother was murdered and is not sure who she can trust as she tries to make sense of his death. A traumatic incident has left her with partial amnesia, which she has been working on with her therapist, Dr. Evans, who seems adamant about Rosalind not trusting or having a friendly or personal relationship with her tutor.
Tony Thistlewood's Stealing Tomorrow's Thunder is a an entertaining and enlightening mystery story. Fans of literary mysteries will enjoy the fruits of Thistlewood's research into Shakespeare and the ongoing battle between the faculty's Shakespeare traditionalist, Kimberley Litchen, and tutor Colebrook. The action takes place on a number of levels: there's the succession of cryptic messages that appear on Litchen's website, a rash of escaped convicts from an institution for the criminally insane, a fascinating series of hypnotherapy dialogues wherein Rosalind parries words and wit with a 16th century earl and another murder that takes place in the same woods where Rupert's body was discovered. Stealing Tomorrow's Thunder is the real deal. I found it to be immensely entertaining and plan on reading more books written by this author.
