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A SHIP’S CAPTAIN IS FOUND HANGED IN HIS CABIN: SUICIDE OR MURDER? Marine claims investigator Angus McKinnon is assigned to the case, but when he discovers a falsely declared cargo of military equipment in the ship’s holds, alarm...

Hello from Scotland – and especially welcome to those who have subscribed to this newsletter recently. Black Reef The third Angus McKinnon thriller, provisionally entitled Black Reef, is currently under construction. I’m...

I’m into thrillers. I have been since reading John Buchan as a child then graduating to Alistair Maclean, Hammond Innes, Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, Le Carre, et al. Today I read travel, history and the odd biography as well but...

I spotted this just now and thought it would be of interest to all those of you who responded to my previous post on the subject. This book was published just last month and I see it’s available on Amazon. Not particularly...

A friend has sent me this link to a disturbing, in-depth article from today’s Guardian. It’s well worth a read and is enhanced by excellent graphics:  The world’s biggest grave robbery: Asia’s disappearing WWII...

I love this quote by Lee Child: As a writer of thrillers, he may never be embraced by some literary critics. But he believes well-crafted popular fiction serves a profound purpose, rooted in our earliest history. “At some...

WORK IN PROGRESS With the first two books in the Angus McKinnon thriller series published, I’m now working on the third with the aim of launching it by mid-2018. In this latest book, Angus suspects more than the obvious when...

Dear friends and colleagues, Forgive this impersonal message. To those of you who have read DARK OCEAN, thank you. I hope you’ve enjoyed it. If you have, can you take a few minutes to post a positive review on Amazon? Positive...

75 years after the Lisbon Maru was torpedoed by an American submarine, which mistook her for a Japanese troop carrier, the wreck has apparently been found, 16 fathoms (98 feet) beneath the East China Sea. The “hell ship”, as...