A Tangle on Loch Tay Published

My latest mystery, A Tangle on Loch Tay, was just published and is available for purchase on my website or at amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and other amazon sites. I hope you enjoy it as much as I loved writing it. Here is the back cover description: During the time Elspeth Duff, special security advisor for the…

Holiday in Scotland

I am taking time off from writing but never can get entirely away from thinking about the Elspeth Duff books. Today I was in Edinburgh looking at art at the national galleries but will eventually go up to Perthshire where many of my books take place. Today I had lunch under typical Scottish skies but…

A Request to My Readers

My wonderful daughter-in-law, Gim, is helping me promote my books. She has suggested that good reviews on amazon.com will help immensely. So please, if you like my books, give me a supportive review. Since I just issued A Murder in Malta, Second Edition, reviews on that one would be particularly appreciated. In the meantime my…

A New Version of A Murder in Malta

Greetings. I have been busily at work. After having published the thirteenth of my Elspeth Duff series, A Victim in Victoria (not yet posted on this site but available on amazon.com), I was reminded by my family that it had been ten years since I published my first book, A Murder in Malta. They suggested…

A Victim in Victoria

I realise I have slowed down in getting my new books to press, but since the pandemic is over, I have been able to travel more and writing less. During the last week I have been busy putting together the last few things to get by next book ready for. A Victim inn Victoria is…

A Matter of Murder Is Available Now.

I just checked amazon.com and A Mater of Murder, my newest book, is available now. Here’s a teaser: Author’s Introduction As the creator of the Elspeth Duff mystery series and feeling a bond to its main character, I often wondered what could have happened to Elspeth if Malcolm Buchanan had not been murdered at Cambridge.…

My Latest Book, A Matter of Murder

In this spin off from the Elspeth Duff Mystery series, Portia MacRoberts, a young lawyer who has taken over the Duff, MacBean and MacRoberts firm of solicitors in Pitlochry, Perthshire, is faced with a blustering client, Sir Gerald Cruikshank. He claims his wife is soon to be arrested for the murder of her long-lost son,…