The stories continue….
Word arrives that Mona has resurfaced.
As they pursue Mona, Grace’s new computerised role exposes a sinister threat targeting new mothers, trapping their fingers in a kitchen drawer and threatening to do the same to their babies unless they comply.
Soon, the crossbow killings begin, just as the Christmas celebrations start.
For over twenty years, I investigated what goes wrong inside healthcare systems, incidents, emergencies, and the moments when institutions fail the people they are supposed to protect. I’ve worked across emergency departments, ambulance services, and clinical governance teams in Australia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and North America, spending my career asking the questions that most people would rather not answer.
After retiring to the West Australian coast, I’ve kept asking them.
The Procurator Fiscal series is the result. Set in Scotland’s unique legal system for investigating sudden and unexplained deaths, the series follows Lieb Canavan, a Procurator Fiscal whose cases often become personal, and the team around him as they navigate the point where professional duty and human cost collide.
My connection to Scotland is not invented. Born in Australia with deep Scottish family roots, I spent six years living in England tracing that heritage before grounding my fiction inside a legal institution that almost no other English-language crime writer has explored.
The series has been recognised with a BookViral Golden Quill Award.
For readers who want crime fiction that shows what the job actually costs, this is the series.