Chain of Death part two: Murder upon murder
In 1969, a robbery in the Scottish coastal town of Ayr left Rachel Ross dead and her jeweller husband Abraham injured. Safeblower Paddy Meehan was jailed for life, but there...
In 1969, a robbery in the Scottish coastal town of Ayr left Rachel Ross dead and her jeweller husband Abraham injured. Safeblower Paddy Meehan was jailed for life, but there...
A crazed gunman led police on a high speed chase across Glasgow - but the terror of that day was only one part of a decades-long chain of death.
Yesterday I passed the house where, in the 19th century, a young woman is said to have fed her former lover poison and murdered him. I wrote about the case,...
A pictorial glimpse at the backdrop to the new Rebecca Connolly thriller The new Rebecca Connolly thriller, CHILDREN OF THE MIST, is now available in all good bookstores and on-line....
If you know me, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of the movies/films/cinema/flicks, call them what you will. I have been for as long as I can remember. Black...
I recently dug out this extract from my out-of-print non-fiction book ‘Devil’s Gallop’ for a friend who wanted too know a little about Glencoe and the infamous massacre. I thought...
I visited Wales for the first time at the weekend, to take part in the Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival in Aberystwyth. And it was absolutely fantastic. I was invited to...
Another excerpt from ‘Dark Heart’, my non-fiction account of the life and subsequent death of the Edinburgh Tolbooth (now out of print). This historic building, of which only brass markers...
The desperate man screamed for mercy as he clung to the ironwork while the resolute band below hauled at his legs. But there was no mercy in that room that night.
AN HONOURABLE THIEF, my first historical thriller, is published in paperback by Canelo this week and to mark the occasion I thought I’d share this account of a true life...