Fate & Fortune (Hew Cullan 2) (Hew Cullen Mystery): A Hew Cullan Mystery (The Hew Cullan Mysteries) - Softcover

Shirley Mckay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846971802 ISBN 13: 9781846971808

Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited, 2011

Synopsis

1581: young St Andrews academic Hew Cullan is unhappy with his life and disillusioned with the law. After his father's death he is invited by the advocate Richard Cunningham to complete his legal education in Edinburgh as Richard's pupil at the bar. Among his father's things Hew finds a manuscript entitled 'In Defence of the Law', directed to the Edinburgh printer, Christian Hall. At first, he resists its influence, but when a young girl is found dead on the beach at St Andrews, he is left unsettled and confused. He resolves to take the book to press and agrees to Richard's offer. Embarking on his new life in the capital, he falls in love. His relationships are fraught with lies and secrets and lead to brutal murder on the borough muir. Hew suspects a link with the dead girl on the beach. As he begins his desperate search to find the killer, he finds that the truth lies closer to home.

About this title

Review:

'Intoxicating mix of dramatic crime and repressed passion' --New Books

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1846971802
• ISBN 13: 9781846971808
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320