As my birthplace, well near enough, Leith provides the inspiration and rich setting for my novels that are based around a fictitious private detective agency, JP Associates.
Leith is a buzzing port linked in the early twentieth century to become part of Edinburgh.
It represents a microcosm of society, with a personality that has been shaped by the past and a diverse community of characters and enterprises who will shape its future.
The JP Associates series is about the goings-on of a place that could be any place, of people with their warmth, their traumas and their joys.
If you were going to open a detective agency, wouldn’t you want it to be slap bang in the centre of it all?
Before graduating in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh in 1995, I worked as a master joiner/carpenter. Following graduation from university, I studied for a post-graduate diploma in Community Education and worked as a literacy tutor in Community Learning and Development. I have gained education awards and published an academic paper on the use of Scots language in family literacy work. I have produced teachers' notes for the Scottish Book Trust.
My first work of fiction, Justified Sinner, was completed in 2016. Since then I have published three more novels in the JP Associate series.
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