A Winter Grave: a chilling new mystery set in the Scottish highlands

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In January 2016 I will be on tour in the UK (details below) and in February/March I will be visiting Australia and New Zealand.

When Sime arrives, it is only to discover that the wife of the victim, and prime suspect in his murder, is unaccountably familiar to him, even although they have never met… But Brodie’s also got his own reason to want to go there with just one chance to try to heal a family rift. And Peter also puts his character under severe pressure personally in a way he has never written about before. Brodie has reasons that make him likely to see the world differently than he ever would have done before. The first thing to interrupt my thinking time was the news that The French edit Before I go, here are my dates in the UK and Paris, I hope you’ll come along and see me if you can… ENTRY ISLAND TOUR 2014

Meet me on the launch tour for “The Man With No Face”

In October, at one of my favourite festivals, the Cognac festival of Crime Writing I won the Prix Polar International by a unanimous vote of the judges (which is apparently very unusual). The best thing about this award? The crystal decanter of 1795 Baron Otard Extra Cognac! I went to the homes of some of their descendants and met some very elderly ladies in their late eighties and nineties who still speak Gaelic. They spoke of their pride in their roots, and in the fortitude of their ancestors who had survived and thrived against all the odds. I still had no idea about writing a book, I had just been reading up on the subject, the history of it and the science and the scepticism, what was the science saying and predicting,” Peter explained. And we are now seeing that same planning swinging into action to deal with Covid-19. Unthinkable both then and now. But it’s happening. DEMAND FROM READERS

I had an extraordinary sense of having arrived somewhere special, a society preserved as in aspic, and I knew immediately that I wanted to write about it. I was pleased to have the chance to spend time with him again, and this was a good opportunity for us to get to know him a little better. For the contemporary element of the story, I turned towards Canada where many Highlanders ended up. I had initially intended to use Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island as the centres of the contemporary crime story. But two coincidences changed my mind. I’m currently writing a new novel which will be published early 2018 on both sides of the Atlantic. Details of that will be released soon, but I can reveal that after opening in Paris, the action shifts to the Hebridean island of Lewis. And finally…Happy New Year! And I’m happy to announce the publication of The Man With No Face. This book was originally written and published in 1981, it’s a fast-moving political thriller is set in 1979 but is contemporary in its themes, which is why my editor suggested it was time for a new edition.

Several years ago he alerted me to the potential disaster that was looming due to our dwindling bee population, and the repercussions for the world if no action was taken. Along with other insect pollinators, the bee is responsible for the production of one mouthful of food in every three that we eat. Without bees there would be widespread famine. The “Crime Thriller Club Best Read” award was the last one to be presented and to be honest my mind was focused on the moment when it would all be over and a) I could visit the toilets and b) I could get out of the tie and suit.

Giving Back in Time of Need

When I got there the office was empty, except for bureau chief Mike Chinoy and an assistant provided by the Chinese government. But, of course, without power it was impossible to view the footage, and although I was able to sit and chat to Mike about the events of two years before, I always wondered if it was more than coincidence that prevented me from seeing that video. For the album cover, Stephen and I tried to replicate a photograph that was taken of us in a photobooth in Euston Station during that fateful trip. We spent our last half crown on it (never dreaming then, that it would end up all over something called the internet nearly half a century later). It’s an interesting comparison. May decided to create a two-timeline crime novel with climate themes, one part set in the present and the other 30 years in the future The good news is that publication dates are bringing North America closer with the UK, Australia and New Zealand. It is with great sadness that I write, belatedly, in tribute to my friend and adviser on all things scientific, Professor Joe Cummins, who died just over two years ago after a lengthy battle with cancer.