Very pleased to share my fifth book and the second in my Mull Mysteries / Sergeant Ivor Punch crime series — ‘An Island Burning’ — is out TODAY!

Here’s some more info on the book and a reading from me too. I’ll be taking the book on tour alongside my new MHS album in June & Sept, dates below. Hope some of you will enter this world!

** BUY at current deal price at Bookshop | Waterstones | Amazon Books: https://geni.us/IslandBurning and at your local bookshop.

Burns Night, January 2000. In the early days of the new millennium, on the Oban-Mull ferry, Mull piper and council worker-cum-alcoholic, Duck, slumps uninvited at the table of Bosnian refugee and architecture student, Davud (a loner who has developed a fascination with fire). Sitting nearby is a scandal-hit politician. Meanwhile, two burnt-out cars are discovered on a barren glen on Mull. Inside them, only teeth and bones. Meanwhile, Sergeant Ivor Punch is busy policing a protest that includes a strange visitor – a man purporting to be Robert Louis Stevenson, who talks of a mysterious island that appears off Mull only twice a century, which he once saw while sailing by Skerryvore Lighthouse. As buildings burn and dead bodies are discovered, Sergeant Punch seeks to find the crux of the mystery by looking to the past. But with mysterious forces at play, he needs to decipher what is real or imagined – before the island falls into chaos.

AN EVENING WITH… Mull Historical Society – Album & Book UK Tour > Tickets: http://mullhistoricalsociety.com

JUNE:

4 – LONDON St Pancras Old Church @spocmusic
10 – TOBERMORY, ISLE OF MULL Aros Hall
11 – STIRLING @tolboothstirling
12 – GLASGOW @kingtutsofficial
13 – EDINBURGH @labelleedinburgh

SEPTEMBER:

11 – HEBDEN BRIDGE @the_trades_club
15 – BIRMINGHAM @hareandhoundsbrum Kings Heath
16 – READING @southstreetarts
17 – MANCHESTER @halleatstmichaels
18 – CAMBRIDGE @storeysfieldcentre
19 – SOUTHAMPTON @joinerslive
22 – BRISTOL @thewardrobetheatre

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