Blogs in June 2025

The Love, Sex & Frankenstein 1st June 2025

Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816. The dark summer that birthed a monster . . . Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley, and her sister, Claire. Tormented by Shelley’s betrayals, haunted by the loss of...

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Secrets Taken to the Grave (The Strathbairn Trilogy) 22nd April 2025

The Scottish Highlands, 1893. Ingrid Barker arrives back at Strathbairn to attend the funeral of her old employer, Charles McCleod. Every bone in Ingrid’s body screams for her to leave, and as she walks from the graveside, she can’t...

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What Happened at the Abbey (The Strathbairn Trilogy) 22nd April 2025

When Ingrid flees a violent husband to become a housekeeper in the Scottish Highlands, she discovers the family she works for has a much darker history than her own. Who haunts Strathbairn? Why are the adult McCleod children at...

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Dangerous 6th April 2025

When fiction is fatal… Living in exile in Venice, the disgraced Lord Byron revels in the freedoms of the city But when he is associated with the deaths of local women, found with wounds to their throats, and then...

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When We Were Killers 25th January 2025

Five friends. One deadly obsession. The salt-scented quadrangles of St Andrews University greet misfit first-year student Finn Nethercott with indifference. This is a place where only privilege counts, and those from the right backgrounds can get away with murder....

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