David Ashton je škótsky herec a spisovateľ, ktorý si popri hereckej kariére vybudoval aj dráhu spisovateľa beletrie, scenáristu filmov a televízie a autora divadelných a rozhlasových hier. Jeho písanie je charakteristické rozmanitosťou a hĺbkou, pričom Ashton skúma široké spektrum tém a postáv. Jeho majstrovstvo v písaní sa prejavuje v pútavých dialógoch a živých opisoch, ktoré vtiahnu čitateľov aj poslucháčov do jeho svetov. Ashtonova schopnosť vytvárať komplexné a pôsobivé príbehy mu vyslúžila uznanie ako významného literárneho hlasu.
Known as the father of forensics and a likely influence on Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, real-life police inspector James McLevy is here reinvented by David
Ashton in a thrilling mystery - the third in a series - set in dark, violent
Victorian Edinburgh.
Known as the father of forensics and a likely influence on Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, real-life police inspector James McLevy is here reinvented by David
Ashton in a thrilling mystery - the fourth in a series - set in dark, violent
Victorian Edinburgh.
Known as the father of forensics and a likely influence on Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, real-life police inspector James McLevy is here reinvented by David
Ashton in a thrilling mystery - the second in a series - set in dark, violent
Victorian Edinburgh.
It's springtime and Jean Brash, Mistress of the Just Land (best bawdy-hoose in Edinburgh), is raring to go. But past, present and future collide to undermine that desire. A theatre company arrives in Leith to perform KING LEAR. A ruthless robbery is planned, and a gruesome murder committed, both of which set Inspector James McLevy on the prowl; and Jean's past returns in the form of a bad seed from a vicious killer. Even more lethally, her own lost family life explodes in the present, as a wild young actress who trails violence and death behind her involves Jean in a dangerous complex game that threatens to destroy the very root of her identity. When you look death in the face, it's best not to blink - otherwise the play is over.
Known as the father of forensics and a likely influence on Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, real-life police inspector James McLevy is here reinvented by David
Ashton in a thrilling mystery - the first in a series - set in dark, violent
Victorian Edinburgh.
Jean Brash, who first appeared in the McLevy mysteries, was once a child of
the streets, now Mistress of the Just Land, the best bawdy-hoose in Edinburgh
- on her own and on the case ... of violent murder.
During the Second World War the British Army underwent a complete
transformation as its number of vehicles grew from 40,000 to 1.5 million,
ranging from tanks and giant tank transporters to jeeps, mobile baths and
offices, and scout cars.