Hue & Cry: A Hew Cullan Mystery (The Hew Cullan Mysteries) - Softcover

McKay, Shirley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846971527 ISBN 13: 9781846971525

Publisher: Polygon, 2010

Synopsis

1579, St. Andrews. A thirteen-year old boy meets his death on the streets of the university city of St. Andrews and suspicion falls upon one of the regents at the university, Nicholas Colp. Hew Cullan, a young lawyer recently returned home from Paris, uncovers a complex tale of passion and duplicity, of sexual desire in tension with the repressive atmosphere of the Protestant Kirk and the austerity of the academic cloister.

About this title

About the Author:

Shirley McKay was born in Tynemouth but now lives with her family in Fife. At the age of fifteen she won the Young Observer playwriting competition, her play being performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. She went on to study English and Linguistics at the University of St Andrews before attending Durham University for postgraduate study in Romantic and seventeenth century prose. She was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger. Shirley works as a freelance proofreader.

Review:

A gripping mystery that holds the reader to the very last page, and a marvellous portrait of St Andrews in the 16th century'  (John Burnside)

About this edition

• Publisher: Polygon
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1846971527
• ISBN 13: 9781846971525
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320