Dangerous Pursuits
During a peaceful walk out on Arthur’s Seat, high above the city of Edinburgh, Rose McQuinn stumbles across the body of a woman in the ruins of St Anthony’s Chapel. Reporting her discovery to a nearby police constable, she assumes that the case is in safe hands. So she is shocked when she returns to the scene to find that both the body and the policeman have disappeared. Further complications ensue when a local woman is reported missing. Unshakeable in her belief that the two cases are linked, Rose determines to pursue a discreet investigation into the double mystery. But she soon finds herself in a terrifying situation, cast in the role of the murderer’s second victim…
An Orkney Murder
On a long-anticipated family visit to Orkney to see her sister Emily, Rose is unprepared for the sinister and unexpected events that occur following the discovery of a body by an archaeological team excavating a nearby peat bog. But the find is not that of the legendary thirteenth-century Maid of Norway, as they had expected, but that of a local woman, long presumed to have drowned. In this the most personal of all her investigations, Rose realises that revealing the killer’s identity can destroy for ever the happiness of those closest to her.
Ghost Walk
Since the disappearance and presumed death of her husband, Danny, three years ago, Rose McQuinn has managed to overcome her grief and begin her life afresh. She has fulfilled her ambition of becoming a ‘Lady Investigator, Discretion Guaranteed’ and is on the threshold of marrying her lover, Detective Inspector Jack Macmerry of the Edinburgh Police. But pre-wedding jitters become the least of her worries when a nun from the local convent claims to have received a letter from Danny. Is the elderly nun simply confused, or could Danny really still be alive? Unnerved and determined to find out the truth before her wedding, Rose begins to investigate. However, after two suspicious deaths, all the signs suggest that a ghost is about to walk back into her life…
In the Tam Eildor series
The Gowrie Conspiracy
July 1600. After rescuing King James from a runaway horse, the enigmatic Tam Eildor finds himself in the monarch’s favour, and the royal benevolence is furthered when Tam agrees to investigate the murder of Margaret Agnew, the Queen’s midwife. As Tam and his good friend Tansy Scott set about discovering who could have attacked her and why, they come across rumours of a buried secret from the King’s past – a secret that could put the King and members of the court in danger. With treacherous forces at work, the King is led away from the palace to Gowrie House in Perth, and into the heart of a mystery that still puzzles historians today…
The Stuart Sapphire
August 1811. George, Prince of Wales, has his own reasons for welcoming Tam Eildor to the Royal Pavilion. His latest mistress, Sarah, Marchioness of Creeve, has been murdered in the royal bed; strangled with her own string of pearls. Newly created Prince Regent, George realises that a sordid scandal must be avoided at all costs, and enlists Tam’s services to quickly and – more importantly – quietly find the killer. But murder isn’t the only crime Tam has to solve: on the same night as the Marchioness’s death a priceless gemstone, the Stuart Sapphire, was stolen. With a double investigation on his hands and his own life in constant danger, Tam struggles to outwit the sinister forces that seem determined to prevent him from discovering the truth.
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