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I was born in
Greenock of Scottish and Irish parents. A graduate of
Glasgow,
Edinburgh,
and Napier
Universities, I have lived in many parts of Scotland, and spent
five years living and working in northern Nigeria. Formerly a teacher of computing, I
began my writing career in the late 1990's.
RIVER
CHILD won the award for best Short Drama at the 2008 Celtic Media
Festival in Galway.
Some of my African short stories have been published in
the 10th Anniversary Macallan collection and broadcast on
BBC and European radio.
DRIFTNET, introducing Forensic Scientist
Rhona MacLeod, was my first novel, and was a summer 2003 best seller.
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The second Rhona MacLeod book,
TORCH, was
chosen as WH Smith's September 2004 Book of the Month for Scotland.The
third in my sequence,
DEADLY CODE,
was published in 2005.
The latest Rhona MacLeod novel
DARK FLIGHT
was
published in hardback by Hodder on 26th July, 2007, and will be out
in paperback in May 2008. The fifth Rhona MacLeod novel
EASY KILL
was published by Hodder in
paperback in January 2009. |
My father was a Detective Inspector in the CID in
Greenock, so maybe I inherited his
interest in solving crime.
DI Bill Wilson, Rhona’s colleague and mentor, is based on my father,
although I am definitely not Rhona! I live in Merchiston in
Edinburgh, dubbed Writer’s Block by neighbour
Ian Rankin,
as it
is also home to
Alexander McCall Smith and
J K Rowling.
I am one of the
Femmes Fatales
crime writing trio: Alex Gray, Alanna
Knight and myself.
In 2005 I had my first non-fiction book published
BRAVEHEART - from Hollywood to
Holyrood, which takes a wide-ranging look at the movie, and what
became known as the 'Braveheart Phenomenon'.
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Contact Lin Anderson
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