Cette auteure crée des romans policiers historiques, plongeant les lecteurs dans les décors atmosphériques de l'Écosse. Ses récits tissent habilement des intrigues complexes, attirant le public vers des mystères captivants ancrés dans le passé. Le travail explore souvent les complexités de la nature humaine et les dilemmes moraux auxquels sont confrontés les personnages dans des paysages historiques exigeants. Sa prose distinctive redonne vie aux époques révolues avec des détails évocateurs et du suspense.
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