One of the stand-out moments of a very busy year was bringing Bone Deep back to where it all started! In September, helped out by some great friends, I launched the novel at NTS Barry Mill in Angus. We’d planned on an outdoor celebration of poetry, song and readings from the novel, but luckily, when the heavens opened, we had a plan B! It was into the marquee to finish off proceedings!

And then there was the Wee Crime Fest at Grantown-on-Spey! It was my first visit to this beautiful town, and it was definitely too short! Lovely to meet some fellow authors and our Sunday morning ‘bacon roll’ panel ‘Killer Women’ (with Margaret Kirk and Helen Forbes, chaired by Michael J. Malone) was a lot of fun.