Thrillers

After a hard day at work, in an airport lounge, curled up in a winter's evening or relaxing on holiday, who does not enjoy reading a good thriller? The sheer escapism from normality, the ups and downs of a plot, the vivacious but perfectly safe excitement. For these reasons, I have written the following books.

Powerstone

(Fledgling Press, 2008)

When Irene Armstrong fails to win a major television competition, she is presented with a difficult choice. Either she settles for a mediocre position, or she goes for broke, steals the Scottish Crown Jewels and reaches for the very top. The rewards are great, but so are the risks. And waiting in te background is a very secret and utterly ruthless society, dedicated to protecting the very object that Irene much steal. 

MOTHER LAW

(Fledgling Press 2006)

When postman David Christie finds a strangely carved box in his garden, he does not realise that his life is about to change. First Professor Jorunn Nechtan forces him out of his iob, and then David is drawn into a web of intrigue that spans the centuries from prehistory to the present day in which his wife, Catriona, plays a prominent role. Shortlisted for the 1999 Dundee Book Prize, Mother Law is set in a Dundee in which nothing is what it seems...