You Will Die Facing the Monument, part 3

Glasgow’s judicial industry was now well-established at the foot of the Saltmarket, with prisoners being kept in the south prison, either ahead of appearing in the adjacent courts or after...

You will die facing the Monument – part 2

By the early 19th century, the civic, prison and court facilities in Glasgow’s Tolbooth at the Cross were insufficient to meet demand. A new base was needed for the city’s...

You Will Die Facing the Monument – Part 1

Another series of extracts from Glasgow’s Black Heart, my history of the city’s crime and punishment, now out of print. This time I’m looking at the area between Glasgow Cross...

A Review of ‘Bones’

Reviews have been coming in for the latest Rebecca Connolly book A RATTLE OF BONES. Thank you to all who have taken the time, either in print or on-line, to...

Blood in the streets

Nobody likes to be taxed but in previous centuries displeasure at the levying of duty could lead to displeasure becoming violence. In the wake of the Act of Union in...

The Wrong Man, part 3

In my latest novel, ‘A Rattle of Bones’, Rebecca Connolly investigates a miscarriage of justice and there is a reference made to a true life case – that of Oscar...

The Wrong Man, part 2

My latest novel A RATTLE OF BONES sees Rebecca Connolly investigating a miscarriage of justice. In it, I mention the notorious Oscar Slater case, a case that continues to haunt...

The Wrong Man – part 1

In A RATTLE OF BONES I mention the Oscar Slater case, a notorious miscarriage of justice from the early 20th century that even today stains the reputation of Scottish justice....

Slaughter in Inverness

My Rebecca Connolly books are set in Inverness and the highlands and islands of Scotland. They each have a connection to either Scottish history or mythology. Both The Blood is...

The field of shattered dreams

What follows is my account of the battle of Culloden, which has a role to play in my modern day mystery thriller THE BLOOD IS STILL. Any views expressed are...