I took some pictures in Culross last weekend. Culross is an old town in Fife, just along the coast from Longannet power station and across the Forth from the massive oil refinery at Grangemouth. In that sense it is similar to Pitkirtly. However, I realised when we got home and I looked at the photographs …
filling out the plot
Now that I've finished with my Camp NaNoWriMo novel, the next task is to carry on with my edit of 'A Reformed Character', the next in the Pitkirtly series. This is a story which revolves around the theme of whether people can really change. The main plot starts with a murder, said to have been …
enhancing the setting
We walked over to Cramond Island last weekend, and once we got there I realised again what a good addition it would make to the setting for a novel - especially a thriller or murder mystery. It is only accessible at low tide via a causeway, and because it was used in the Second World War …
Different kinds of screaming
A taste of 'Reunited in Death': Amaryllis thought at first that it was jolly, girlish screaming of the kind people might do if they had suddenly found they were descended from Jesus Christ or related to Princess Diana. She could imagine some of the women here indulging in that if they got really excited by …
Cecilia Peartree - woman of mystery 