The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
David Stoddart is a well-respected town councillor with a troubling thrill addiction. By day, he’s a successful businessman and pillar of local society. But as darkness falls, Stoddart slips out of his house to prowl the streets of The Old Town, committing burglaries...
Justin, A Leap in the Dark is a historical novel set in the criminal underworld of Edinburgh. Why did you want to write it? I grew up in Scotland and spent part of my youth in Edinburgh, which had and still has a strong hold on my imagination. A Leap In the Dark is...
Every work of fiction starts with a single idea. An assassin hired to kill a president (The Day Of The Jackal), an elderly fisherman who loses his prize to a shark (The Old Man And The Sea), a doctor who transforms into a beast at night and commits murder (Jekyll and...
