The Vacation Killer (Paperback or Softback)

Revenge, according to the Cambridge English Dictionary, is "harm done to someone as a punishment for harm that they have done to someone else."

The main character, Lorna Feeney, suffered horrors that no child should ever experience and she spends her adult life traveling the world to exact revenge on those who she deems responsible for her suffering.

A master of subterfuge, Lorna evades pursuit through a series of complex ruses as each victim is caught in her web. Killing becomes her raison d'etre and her motivation -- even beyond her quest for revenge.

Lorna's pursuers include Fraser Robertson, an Army veteran turned police officer, who always seems to be one step behind Lorna. Fraser's "honey pot" operation to catch Lorna was almost successful, but Lorna seemed to vanish into thin air, leaving Fraser and his colleagues to pick up her trail before she kills again.

Patricia Donoghue, writing under the nom de plume of G.B. Carmichael, was born in Edinburgh in the fabulous fifties. Now living on the south coast of England, she has three wonderful children who have grown into the most beautiful adults in spite of her. She is "Nana" to four boys and two girls - with another grandchild on the way.

Her life has included time as a bookie's clerk, training as a person-centred psychologist (working in a converted toilet in a prison), and her own highland regalia and instrument business.

She was invited to join the London Scots Regimental Band in Italy in 2008, who were invited to play all along the Piave River and in Venice's St. Mark's Square to commemorate the last battles of World War I.