Book description
A gripping and welcome addition to the growing genre of historical
crime fiction' - Waterstone's Books Quarterly 'An elaborate, closely
plotted tale that combines extensive research with high drama' -The
Herald 1579, St. Andrews. A thirteen-year old boy meets his death on
the streets of the university city of St. Andrews and suspicion falls
upon one of the regents at the university, Nicholas Colp. Hew Cullan,
a young lawyer recently returned home from Paris, uncovers a complex
tale of passion and duplicity, of sexual desire and tension within the
repressive atmosphere of the Protestant Kirk and the austerity of the
academic cloister.
Shirley McKay was born in Tynemouth but now lives with her family in
Fife. At the age of fifteen she won the Young Observer playwriting
competition, her play being performed at the Royal Court Theatre
Upstairs. She went on to study English and Linguistics at the University
of St Andrews before attending Durham University for postgraduate study
in Romantic and seventeenth century prose. She was shortlisted for the
CWA Debut Dagger. Shirley works as a freelance proofreader.
