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Is the young man merely drunk or does his tottering walk suggest something more sinister? When he collapses in front of two sisters on that dark, wet night, they guess rightly that he's been murdered by poisoning. So begins this tale set in the town of Banff, Scotland in the 1620s.

It is Midsummer, 1631. While Alexander Seaton and his fellow masters enjoy the holiday with their students, Robert Sim, librarian of Marischal College, is murdered in a dark alleyway in town. While the university and town authorities investigate the murder, Seaton is asked by the college principa...

1635, Aberdeen. A girl lies dead in a frozen garden. A young man goes missing after a drunken brawl. A sinister cloaked figure watches from the shadows. The missing student is in Alexander Seaton's class. When the young man's companion turns up bruised and bloodied, suspicion mounts that he has m...

How do our roots in the land define us? Hidden in the breath-taking mountains of wild Scotland, Glen Conach is the home of secrets and stories, of fables and folklore. Over hundreds of years, three lives are woven together. In ancient Britain, the hermit Saint Conach performs impossible miracles,...

The author makes a significant contribution to the research and understanding of Bram Stoker's writing, by investigating Bram Stoker's time in Cruden Bay, in detail

Is the young man merely drunk or does his tottering walk suggest something more sinister? When he collapses, vomiting, over the two prostitutes who find him on that dark wet night, they guess rightly that he's been murdered by poisoning. So begins this tale set in the town of Banff, Scotland in t...

This historical thriller sweeps Alexander Seaton back to his roots in troublesome Ulster, and a family he might prefer never to have met.