My Novels

Chris's crime novels are all set in Dundee and all feature the dark side of life. 'The Death Game' is a historical crime novel. The other two novels are set in the Dundee of today. 'Cold Vengeance' focuses on a stalker and a woman with revenge on her mind. Her most recent book is more of a woman in peril sort of novel and features a serial killer, gangsters, drug users and pushers, and women on the game. Check out the novels below and then read some more if you are interested.

• The Death Game
• Cold Vengeance

The Death Game

The setting of this novel is Dundee in 1919, and it was inspired by Mrs Thomson, one of the first Scottish policewomen (there were only three in Scotland at this time) who worked with Dundee Police. However the main character, Kirsty Campbell, is not intended to represent Mrs Thomson.

Kirsty Campbell, aged 29 years, rebelled against her middle class family ten years previously and ran away from home to become part of the suffragette movement. She joined the Women’s Police Volunteers in 1914 and subsequently became a member of the Metropolitan Women’s Police Patrols. She is sent to Dundee to be their first policewoman but on her arrival is dismayed to discover that her appointment is that of a Statement Taker. The resentment she feels about this leads her into conflict with her superior officer, Police Inspector Jamie Brewster, and impacts on her fight to be recognised as a policewoman.

She becomes embroiled in a murder investigation with ritualistic undertones but clashes with her supervising officer, who has instructed her to concentrate on more minor tasks and leave the investigation to him. This further antagonises Kirsty and she looks for support from the warden of a Children's Shelter who is sympathetic to her problems with the Dundee Police Force.

Read the beginning of The Death Game

Cold Vengeance

Julie's estranged husband is killed. The police are convinced he has committed suicide but Julie knows better. Julie swears vengeance on Nicole, the woman she blames for his death, and starts to stalk her. But Nicole is also being stalked by someone else, for the unhinged individual known as The Watcher has also arrived in Dundee.

Julie ingratiates herself with Nicole and begins to play mind games with her to fuel Nicole's increasing paranoia about The Watcher.

When Nicole is murdered suspicion falls on her latest lover and a disaffected employee whom Nicole has sacked. Meanwhile The Watcher turns his attentions to Julie. Will she be the next person to die?

Read the beginning of Cold Vengeance