"Why is it," Barclay Curle grumbles to his agent Jonah, "that all the regional Edinburgh detectives have monosyllabic first names like Jack and Bob?" Then Curle publishes his newest book - about an Edinburgh detective called Doug - inciting a letter from an anonymous admirer accusing him of stealing the murders she's committed. Fact and fiction become increasingly inseparable when a dead woman is found, murdered by the method favored by the serial killer in Curle's novel. For Detective Inspector Meldrum - first name Jim - Curle seems the most obvious suspect. Faced with a second murder and a darkening cloud of suspicion, Curle decides to take action. After all, who has more experience of solving murder mysteries than a crime novelist?
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Born and raised in Glasgow, Frederic Lindsay now lives in Edinburgh. After graduating with first-class honors in English Literature and Language he worked as a library assistant, a teacher and a lecturer before becoming a full-time writer in 1979. He is the author of several other highly praise suspense novels published in the U.K.
'One of the most potent voices in contemporary Scottish fiction'-- The Glasgow Herald
"Intelligent, entertaining, gripping and well-written." -- Ian Rankin
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