FATE AND FORTUNE: A Hew Cullan Mystery

1581. Young St Andrews academic Hew Cullan is unhappy with his life and disillusioned with the law. After his father's death, he is invited by the advocate Richard Cunningham to complete his legal education in Edinburgh as Richard's pupil at the bar. Among his father's things, Hew finds a manuscript entitled 'In Defence of the Law', directed to the Edinburgh printer, Christian Hall. At first, he resists its influence, but when a young girl is found dead on the beach at St Andrews, Hew is left unsettled and confused and resolves to take the book to press and agrees to Richard's offer. Embarking on his new life in the capital, he falls in love. His relationships are fraught with lies and secrets and lead to brutal murder on the borough muir. Hew suspects a link with the dead girl on the beach and as he begins his desperate search to find the killer, he finds that the truth lies closer to home. There are hints of a long-hidden mystery which draw him into a deadly game against an unrepentant foe. A superb historical thriller, 306pp in paperback.