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Author of Glasgow and Scots-Noir
AMONGST THE BROKEN THINGS
Notes for Agents
Market: Adult
Genre: Scots Noir/Crime - "Dept Q meets Taggart"
Status: Under Contract
Word Count: 75k
In the City of Culture, children are missing.
It is 1990, and the streets of Glasgow are being flooded with ecstasy; petty gangs fight over their patch. Poll tax riots, civil unrest, and illegal raves rage against the celebrations of art, music and culture, with the eyes of the world watching.
But underneath the clash and noise, something awful is happening. A child goes missing, and then another. This is no dear, green place.
ITCH
Lawyer Jonathan Fitch finds ever increasingly harmful ways to relieve his itch whilst hiding his scarred skin from colleagues and the court.
Desperate, he stumbles across a strange group who call themselves The Exquisites. They promise escape from his affliction through transcendent pain; and he opens the door to a terrifying underworld.
Notes for Publishers/Agents
Market: Adult
Genre: Crime/Horror
Status: In the works
Word Count: expected 80k
Notes for Publishers/Agents
Market: Adult
Genre: Crime/Horror
Status: In the works
Word Count: expected 80k
The Boy who Spoke with Crows
A linguistics professor is convinced her young son is speaking with crows, and begins decoding their patterns and language. Soon, a cult forms around the boy, as people from all over the world come to uncover the terrible message nature is trying to deliver.
IRONTOOTH
In 1954, hundreds of Glaswegian children descended on the city's Southern Necropolis, hunting down the alleged devourer of two of their own. The creature they sought was a 7 foot tall vampire, boasting iron fangs.
For Ellen McCourt, the destruction of the monster was a matter of some personal vengeance. Her little brother, Charlie, had been taken by the beast.
But Old Irontooth was no interloper. He was Glasgow's oldest resident, and he knew his city in the day, and in the night.
Notes for Publishers/Agents
Market: YA
Genre: Horror/Adventure
Status: In the works
Word Count: expected 60k
"Irontooth" is a fictionalised horror account of the real events of the "Gorbals Vampire"
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