What if your deepest secret was revealed?
Sam Morpeth is growing up way too fast, left to fend for a younger sister when their mother goes to prison and watching her dreams of university evaporate. But Sam learns what it is to be truly powerless when a stranger begins to blackmail her.
Who would you turn to?
Meanwhile, reporter Jack Parlabane has finally got his career back on track, but his success has left him indebted to a volatile, criminal source. Now that debt is being called in, and it could cost him everything.
What would you be capable of?
Thrown together by a vindictive and mysterious mutual enemy, Sam and Jack are about to discover they might be each other’s only hope.
Siege Mentality
My new Catherine McLeod short story Siege Mentality is now available for download. It concerns modern-day bampottery at an ancient Scottish castle.
Places in the Darkness – November events
SHETLAND Wordplay Festival – Sunday November 5th, 20:30, at The Mareel, Lerwick.
EDINBURGH Central Library – Wednesday November 7th, 18:30. Tickets from Blackwells on South Bridge
GLASGOW Sloan’s Ballroom – Thursday November 9th, 19:00. Tickets from Waterstones Argyle Street.
YORK “Big City Read” (with Mark Billingham) – Friday November 10th, 18:00 at York Explore.
FORT WILLIAM – Friday November 17th, 19:00 at The Highland Bookshop.
ABERFELDY – Saturday November 18th, 19:00, The Watermill Bookshop
STIRLING “Bloody Scotland in Conversation” – Thursday November 23rd, 19:30, Stirling Castle.
ORKNEY – Monday November 27th, 19:00, Orkney Library and Archive, Kirkwall.
ALLOA – Tuesday November 28th, 19:00 Clackmannanshire Library.
LOCHGILPHEAD – Wednesday November 29th 19:30 Lochgilphead Library.
OBAN – Thursday November 30th, 19:00, Corran Halls.
Forthcoming events
MAY
May 17 Grantown on Spey. Grant Arms Hotel, 7:00 pm.
May 20 Coastword festival, Dunbar. Dunmuir Hotel, 1:00 pm.
JUNE (All events with Mark Billingham)
June 8 Bath. Topping & Co, The Paragon, Bath, 8:00 pm.
June 12 Liverpool. Waterstones Liverpool One, 6:30 pm. Chaired by Luca Veste.
June 13 Thornton Hall Hotel & Spa, Wirral, 7:30 pm. Tickets from Linghams Booksellers, Heswall.
June 14 Manchester. Waterstones Deansgate, 6:30 pm.
June 15 Preston. Waterstones Fishergate 7:00 pm.
June 16 Melrose. Borders Book Festival, 8:45 pm.
June 23 Tyneside. The Write Festival, The Word, South Shields, 7:00 pm
In-store signings:
June 10 Braehead. Waterstones, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm.
June 17 Galashiels WH Smith, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm.