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.
Upcoming event: Waterstones Edinburgh June 21st
I will be speaking at Waterstones Edinburgh Princes St on June 21st at 6:30pm.
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.