Bøger af Clio Gray

The primary aim of HISSAC has always been to encourage new writers, give them confidence in their work, and this anthology is the embodiment of that aim and a celebration of the short story in all its many forms. The stories come in all shapes and sizes, loosely grouped by theme, and embrace an extraordinary range of subject and style. A few are downright peculiar, but HISSAC has always liked peculiar, and they're no less accomplished for that. Whether you're a writer or a reader, these stories will both impress and inspire. It is a collection not to be missed.

A body is found in a Salt Hedge with a crate of purloined books. Ruan Peat is on the case.Hela believes she has the means to achieve Hungarian Independence, if only she can get her hands on it. No one will be allowed to stand in her way.Greta Finnerty is smuggling a dead English officer through French lines, with urgent news for the Dutch Authorities.Three strands pulling deftly drawn characters together from remote Norwegian mountains, ancient Russian battles, Irish and French Uprisings, until all three strands become one in the exciting historical adventure that is The Juggler's Box.

1869, Sutherland, Scotland. There's a Gold Rush going on in the Glens of Suisgill and Kildonan. When representatives of the Pan European Mining Company arrive to investigate, one of the prospectors is found bludgeoned to death, odd inscriptions discovered on stones nearby. Meanwhile Solveig McCleery is trying to open up the coal mines at Brora, and it's not long before another body turns up. And from faraway Archangel in Russia, a Master Mast-Maker suddenly decides to leave his work, his family, and take a ship over to Scotland, to Sutherland, and to Kildonan...Discovering how all three strands are connected will lead you through this richly researched and engagingly atmospheric novel from beginning to end.

Hestan Island, marooned in the Solway Firth, tethered to the mainland at low tide by a causeway called The Rack. Hestan is home to two men quietly living out their lives, until a boy is almost crushed to death in their tiny copper mine after which the horrors of their shared past begins to unravel.As truths are revealed we are taken back through the bloody wars of Crimea and the lands of the Tartars; to book burnings, betrayals, and the bonds of men who find themselves in dire circumstance. It is not long before terrible secrets are laid bare.The third in acclaimed writer Clio Gray's Scottish Mysteries, Hidden Pasts explores the history of a little known part of Scotland and provides a compelling tale of how small events can echo down the years, with deadly consequences.

1798. Three people, two brutal murders, one promise.We're following in the footsteps of the Academy of the Lynx, the first Scientific Society in Europe, whose library was lost for centuries. Golo Eck is on its trail, heading for Holland; his friend Fergus tracks another part of it in Ireland, where he becomes embroiled in the Irish rebellion against English rule, including the very bloody Battle of New Ross.When Golo disappears during a shipwreck, his ward Ruan is left to fend for himself, a stranger in a strange land. And then there is Greta, courageous messenger for the United Irish, who links all the differing strands together as we approach the final explosive conclusion.Award-winning author Clio Gray has written a thrilling adventure steeped in historical fact - Barberini Bees, the Melissographia, Galileo, an Aztec Khipu, all play their parts - and will keep readers gripped to the very last page.

Lukitt Bachman is waiting in his Lanterne de Mortes, a Tower of the Dead, in the middle of a cemetery. He has become an assassin and a murderer, learned the terrible highs and lows of friendships made and lost, and is awaiting now his last remaining friend to set him free so he can put right past wrongs.

'Playfully elegant and effortlessly seductive' Telegraph

In a race against time and treachery a young woman must survive, a lost legacy must be found and a city must be saved

A novel of murder, vengeance and weird invention