We've just had St Andrew's Day, the feast day of Scotland's Patron Saint (it was November 30, in case you didn;t know). Have you ever wondered why Scotland adopted the Saltire as its national flag? Well, there are two competing stories.
To explain what I’ll be doing every now and again regarding the extracts from DEVIL’S GALLOP, here is the original introduction to the book. THE woman in the tourist information...
As part of my very occasional wander down the byways of Scotland’s dark history – based on my book Devil’s Gallop – I thought I’d share some stories about one...
The crime writing improvisational comedy show plays Spain and Glasgow Comedy Festival. A quartet of Scottish crime writers are set to swap murder for mirth at the Glasgow International Comedy...
With the most recent adaptation of DRACULA garnering raves, I thought I’d share something I wrote many years ago about Cruden Bay, a town on the north east coast of...
So. That’s been a year. Professionally, 2019 was pretty good. I’m not one for being profligate with superlatives (the word ‘good’ seems to cover pretty much everything) so take it...
News that many of Alistair MacLean's titles are to be republished is welcome.
Bloody Scotland guilty of enthralling readers and sentencing them to a life sentence of reading Well. Bloody Scotland 2019 has come and gone in a blur. I’m still completely and...
It doesn’t seem like a year since I was last in Stirling for Bloody Scotland and yet, here we are again. This coming weekend crime writers will descend on the...
It has taken me some time to create this post – events overtook me – however, let me state right here and now that I am chuffed to bits to...