Crossing the Atlantic to catch a thief
Hallie Rubenhold’s new book, The Story of a Murder (published later this month), is a fresh look at the Dr Crippen case. It was, of course, famed because it was...
Hallie Rubenhold’s new book, The Story of a Murder (published later this month), is a fresh look at the Dr Crippen case. It was, of course, famed because it was...
That’ll be 2024, then. Its tea’s oot and its pie’s cauld, as we say in Scotland. It’s been an eventful year for your present narrator. I published three books and...
Controversy has dogged Scotland’s Not Proven verdict for decades. Douglas Skelton looks at the history of the ‘Bastard Verdict’ HERE’S a wee legal riddle: When can a man be cleared...
I do a lot of reading, all writers do – or at least should. Reading all kinds of genres is the best learning resource I know. If you want to...
Being a child of the 60s – yes, I know you all thought I was only in my 30s – it’s surprising that I have never smoked. Back then smoking...
Nine years following the Castle Toward case, a woman who poisoned her neighbour and a lodger caused something a fashion sensation – for the tartan she wore was subsequently shunned...
POISON, they say, is a woman’s weapon, the perception being that there is something decidedly unmanly in slipping a victim a noxious substance rather than facing up to him with...
My latest book, A GRAVE FOR A THIEF, is published on Thursday (you’ll find it in all good bookshops, as well as on-line) so I thought I’d talk you though...
I recently chaired in the Book Nook, Stewarton, author Craig Robertson whose new book ‘The Trials of Marjorie Crowe’ is a crime story that features accusations of witchcraft and a...
I recently chaired in the Book Nook, Stewarton, author Craig Robertson whose new book ‘The Trials of Marjorie Crowe’ is a crime story that features accusations of witchcraft and a...