A Winter Grave: a chilling new mystery set in the Scottish highlands

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But Peter says he enjoyed the extra twist of creating a future world – and not just any world, but Scotland in the future. Most of us are helpless in the face of the multi-billion dollar fossil fuel industry which has spent tens of millions in the last decades spreading misinformation and casting doubt on the science behind the climate crisis.” Here is a video of me at the awards ceremony, receiving the Barry Award from George Easter. The video might not be very clear, but the audio quality is good enough to hear my speech. Here was a country riding the crest of its own wave of success. Were I twenty-five years younger, I might have been tempted to move there myself. I simply loved the energy and enthusiasm that I encountered everywhere we went. It helped, too, that the sun shone almost incessantly. We made trips down the Swan River to the old port town of Freemantle; toured the Barossa Valley, tasting the wonderful South Australia wines produced there; wandered the harbour areas of Sydney and ate in restaurants with amazing night views. It’s an inspiring beginning for the stuff of fiction, but the real inspiration for my story is rooted firmly in fact. It too, has been in my thoughts for a number of years. One of my expert advisors, Professor Joe Cummins, who has been providing scientific guidance for my books since the late 1990s, is professor emeritus of genetics at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. He is one of the foremost scientists involved in the campaign to protect agriculture and the environment from the contamination of genetically modified crops and the blanket use of pesticides.

This is a very special prize to win as it is for all my various books and series, and an endorsement from the readers, users and keepers of the UK library system. The two conflicts almost every time, both were trying to solve the issue in their way. This tug-of-war between the two makes the story fun to read. But that’s not all. Yan later learns who Campbell is, and she is now assigned to work with him investigating a case. So nearly half a century later, I find myself on the same list, with the same publisher as the man who I have always considered to be my first and most important mentor. There is a recurring theme in a lot of my books, and this was a final resolution of that for me. Brodie realises all the things he has been putting off, that he needs to resolve … and that was interesting as something to explore.” This week the final book in the Lewis Trilogy hits the streets of Norway and the expectations are high that it will follow the success of the first two books. The Norwegians are really taking the trilogy to their hearts.

I traversed the US, east to west, north to south, and in five years built up a loyal fan base and readership thanks to the work of those independent mystery bookstore owners. Word-of-mouth recommendations are by far the most effective way of reaching new readers. However, internet shopping is taking its toll, and I feel that I am now witnessing the end of an era. So I wrestled with the idea of how would I write about this in a way that would draw attention to it. From there he moved into teaching, and while Vice Chancellor of the University of Illinois in Chicago, set up the Office of International Criminal Justice (OICJ) which reached out to law enforcement agencies throughout the world, exchanging ideas, co-operation and criminology students.

In I’ll Keep You Safe in 2018, the writer took readers to Paris and the world of the textile and fashion industry where a couple from Lewis were due to show their own brand of tweed at an international fabric fair. Three swimmers from the Western Isles – Ed Smith, Colin S. Macleod and Stuart Baird – are set to undertake a hugely dangerous relay swim from Eilean Mor, across twenty-one miles of treacherous Atlantic Ocean, to Uig on the south-west coast of Lewis.

“I’LL KEEP YOU SAFE”

Kinlochleven was called The Electric Village because it was the first place in the world to have full electric lighting.” I chose the year 2051. It’s the year I would turn 100 if I were to survive, though I don’t expect to be around then. I wouldn’t want to be if all my predictions turn out to be accurate,” Peter laughed. The lighthouse stood on the largest of the Flannans, Eilean Mor, and was state of the art at the time. However, regardless of what might have been happening on the outside, one of the keepers was obliged always to remain within. Yet when the relief vessel arrived in December 1900, all three were gone. Despite extensive investigation, their disappearance remains a mystery to this day.

It was dated January 25th, 1971, which seemed auspicious since it was also the birthday of the great Scottish Bard, Rabbie Burns. One installed computer systems all over the world for a multi-national corporation, the other was employed as a freelance consultant by major organisations initialising untried computer systems in areas of financial or logistical sensitivity. Each had an unerring propensity for rubbing employers and co-workers up the wrong way. Both manage to offend friends and family with regular ease, never with intent, but always with surprise and regret when the effect of their words becomes belatedly apparent. About eight years ago I bought an apartment overlooking the Mediterranean, a little to the west of the Spanish resort town of Estepona. Since then I have spent most of my winters there to escape the cold of my home in south-west France. In a little study looking out over a sparkling sunlit sea I have written my last six books. It is a part of Spain with which I have become very familiar and I have wanted to write about it for some time.His column was not only ill-informed and hopelessly prejudiced, but it was deeply offensive to the many thousands of people who play the game at all levels, and nothing short of insulting to the Scots who comprise the men’s and women’s British Olympic curling teams and who sacrifice their time and their social lives, just like any other athletes, to perform the best they can for Britain. Enzo Macleod is a biology teacher at a French University. Macleod grew up in Scotland and worked as a forensic scientist. He is married and has a daughter as well. He lives a simple, routine life with not much happening, but he is happy with what he does. Cast Iron– the sixth and final book in the Enzo Files series – will be published in hard cover edition in North America on October 3rd. In the end, it was another six years before I returned. But this time I had a story, and a precious introduction to the Chinese police from a man revered by the country’s top cops. Arriving during an ice storm, Brodie and pathologist Dr. Sita Roy, find themselves the sole guests at the inappropriately named International Hotel, where Younger’s body has been kept refrigerated in a cake cabinet. But evidence uncovered during his autopsy places the lives of both Brodie and Roy in extreme jeopardy.

And it was the French version that was read by the book scout for award-winning young publishing house Quercus – a UK publisher that had not even existed when the book was first offered to British publishers. They immediately stepped in to buy the English language rights and were the ones to commission a further two books to create what has become known as The Lewis Trilogy.I’m currently writing a new novel which will be published early 2018 on both sides of the Atlantic. Details of that will be released soon, but I can reveal that after opening in Paris, the action shifts to the Hebridean island of Lewis. And finally… The only channel of communication for deaf-blind sufferers with the world around them has come with the development of technologies that provide braille screens that allow them to surf the internet and exchange messages with others. There is even a service that enables telephone conversations via an operator who can pass on vocal or braille messages and respond in kind. But with so comparatively few sufferers worldwide, investment in finding medical solutions is tiny, and the hope of a future cure equally so. THE SETTING