Deze auteur creëert historische misdaadromans en dompelt lezers onder in de sfeervolle landschappen van Schotland. Haar verhalen weven behendig ingewikkelde plotlijnen en trekken het publiek naar boeiende mysteries geworteld in het verleden. Het werk verkent vaak de complexiteit van de menselijke natuur en de morele dilemma's waarmee personages worden geconfronteerd in veeleisende historische landschappen. Haar kenmerkende proza brengt vervlogen tijdperken tot leven met suggestieve details en spanning.
The distant Scottish spa town of Ballater seems a world away from the stylish and familiar streets of Georgian Edinburgh, but recently married Hippolyta Napier is making a new life amidst its dark woods and pure, flowing waters. But suspicion, intrigue and death await both inside and outside her new home, and the forces of nature take few prisoners.
'Uncle!'The man lay with his head propped against the standing stone - what was left of his head. Hippolyta swallowed hard. 'I'm a doctor's wife, ' she told herself. 'I can manage.'No one can think why this man has been murdered, nor why passing farmer has also been attacked. But as Hippolyta Napier does her best to assist the sheriff's man in damp, autumnal Ballater, they gradually unfold a web of violence, past tragedy and present crisis, threatening anyone who comes near it. A Lochgorm Lament is the fifth in the Ballater Murder series, set in 1830s Scotland