Stephen Bentley

Stephen Bentley is a crime fiction author from the UK who is best known for the “Steve Regan” and “Detective Matt Deal” series of novels. Bentley was born in Accrington, Lancashire but grew in Huyton Liverpool. He then went to Merseyside’s Prescot Grammar School and graduated after seventeen years. Stephen then went on to work as a law enforcement officer and even worked undercover for several years in Hampshire and Lancashire before he retired as Detective Sergeant. At fifty years old, he went back to school and studied to become a barrister at the Inns Court School of Law in London. He would then practice criminal law defending anyone from murderers and burglars, drug dealers, and people charged with illegal possession of firearms among many other crimes. In the 1980s and early 90s, he worked several jobs such as Thames Water plant machinery operator, sales manager, hospital porter, London motorcycle courier, and big truck driver. Bentley is now a “Huffington Post” blogger, writer, and author with several fiction and non-fiction works under his belt. He wrote his first work “Undercover: Operation Julie” in 2017 and this paved the way for his fiction novels the first of which was “Who The F*ck Am I?,” the first of the “Steve Regan” series of novels. He also contributes to several anthologies on murder mysteries.