My Novels

Chris's crime novels are all set in Dundee and all feature the dark side of life. The two crime novels are set in the Dundee of today. 'Night Watcher' focuses on a stalker and a woman with revenge on her mind. Her most recent book 'Dead Wood' 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. Chris has since published a historical family saga and is currently working on two more crime novels.

'Dead Wood' was published by Polygon after winning the Dundee International Book Prize. 'Night Watcher' and 'A Salt Splashed Cradle' are published as e-books, available from the Kindle Store, the Apple iBookstore, and Smashwords for other formats.

Check out the novels below and then read some more if you are interested.

• Dead Wood
• The Night Watcher
• A Salt Splashed Cradle

Dead Wood

Published by Polygon, price £9.99

Other supliers - Amazon and Waterstone's

What happens when the cold, calculating world of gangland retribution collides with the psychosis of a killer?

Kara has a debt to gangster Tony and takes to the streets to earn the cash. On a job she encounters murder victims dumped in woods just outside Dundee. A police investigation led by newcomer DC Louise Walker begins, but she is not the only one determined to catch the killer. Tony’s daughter is one of the victims and he vows revenge. Who will find the killer first? And what kind of justice will prevail?

Read the beginning of Dead Wood

or listen to the video below

The Night Watcher

Published at Amazon.co.uk as a Kindle ebook. Price £2.85

Also available from Amazon.com

Available at Smashwords.com in a variety of ereader formats.

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 The Night Watcher

or listen to the video below

A Salt Splashed Cradle

Available at Amazon.co.uk as a Kindle ebook. Price £2.85

Available at Amazon.com as a Kindle ebook.

Available at Smashwords .com in a variety of ebook formats

This historical saga is set in a Scottish fishing village in the 1830’s and reflects the living conditions and the morals of the ordinary fisher folk of that time.
The novel follows the relationships of Belle, her husband, Jimmie, her daughter Sarah, her mother-in-law, Annie, and the rest of the Watt family.
James and Annie Watt are a typical fisher family, and Annie is horrified when Jimmie, her eldest son, brings Belle to the village as his new bride. She makes her displeasure obvious to Belle who struggles to find acceptance in the village. Belle is engaged in a losing battle however, because the villagers regard her as an incomer.
Jimmie, anxious to buy his own boat, leaves the fishing village to sail with a whaling ship. The story follows him to the Arctic, and on a whale hunt, before he returns home again.
Meanwhile in his absence, Belle has fallen for the charms of Lachlan, the Laird’s son, and embarks on a tempestuous affair with him. When Jimmie returns she struggles with her feelings for him and for Lachlan.
By this time the women in the village are starting to regard Belle as a Jezebel who will tempt their men away. A mood of hysteria engulfs them and they turn against Belle, in an attempt to force her out of the village.
What will Belle do?
And will she survive?

Read the beginning of A Salt Splashed Cradle

or listen to the video below