Book description
The gripping new novel featuring unorthodox Edinburgh lawyer Brodie
McClennan, who must investigate a ritualistic murder in the Highlands in
order to clear her name.
A woman is lured to a lonely ruin in the Scottish Highlands and
strangled almost to the point of death. As she prays for mercy, her
hopes are shattered when her unseen assailant begins to carve her face,
and she is left alone to bleed her life's blood into a shallow grave.
In Edinburgh, 29-year-old lawyer Brodie McLennan is coming to terms
with the discovery of the family she never knew she had. She must also
fight the increasing resentment of the Edinburgh Bar. As the complaints
to the Law Society about Brodie pile up, her grandfather and legal
legend Lord MacGregor fears that Brodie is in danger and advises that to
protect her reputation, she should become a crown prosecutor-accept
'silk'-something that rankles with Brodie's natural inclination to
protect the underdog. When Lord McGregor's prophecy is fulfilled and
Brodie is implicated in the disappearance of a fellow lawyer, she
realises he is right-she is now a marked woman.
Then the missing woman is found in a remote mental hospital, the walls
of her cell smeared in blood, the name 'Brodie' written over and over…
Back in Edinburgh, a knife is found with Brodie's fingerprints. It
seems that someone is out to stop Brodie's rise to the top-at any cost…
Praise for Dark Angels:
'This is a shocking thriller and I couldn't put it down. Dan Brown fans
looking for something more hardcore will love this'.
Closer Magazine Grace Monroe is the pseudonym of Maria Thomson and
Linda Watson-Brown. Maria graduated with a law degree in her 20s and
soon met her future husband. The couple now have four children. Since
finishing her law career she has worked as a hypnotherapist, stage
hypnotist and fertility counsellor amongst others. After 10 years as a
Politics lecturer, Linda began her journalistic career as a columnist at
The Scotsman. She went on to write regularly for the Daily Mail, Sunday
Herald and Independent and also started ghostwriting. In 2006, her first
ghost-written book, The Step Child, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Maria
and Linda met in 2003, became firm friends and decided to write as a
team.
