A Doctor Unchained
Fictional Reflections from Scotland

AT LAST IT'S (NEARLY) HERE Instead of (yet) another front cover image of Flowers for the Slaughterman, I thought I'd take a picture from outside my front door. This morning.. The Wallace Monument looking majestic and spooky. And absolutely nothing to do with Flowers for the Slaughterman FLOWERS FOR THE SLAUGHTERMAN is officially published tomorrow, 2nd December. Reviews by readers who have seen advance copies are BRILLIANT. “unputdownable plot“ “another riveting thriller fro

The sequel to MILES AWAY — Memories Can Kill will be published on 2nd December. FLOWERS for the SLAUGHTERMAN is the second in the Flint & Masson crime series. It's now 1982, and Flint reunites with PC Craig Masson. Craig becomes aware that a man accused of murder is innocent — but only the young, disgraced cop believes it. Will they unmask the real killer? And will they be in time to save the next victim on the killer's target list? Follow Flint and Masson as they race betwee

A bus trip I'll never forget Chania harbour, Crete. Warning: Not for the faint-hearted. Reading this may cause an involuntary clenching of the buttocks During my first year working as a doctor, I had a week off in the June of my medical resident job. decided it would be a good idea to go to Crete, on my own. I’d been once before on a back-packing, ferry-hopping tour of the Greek Islands with my best friend from school. That trip was a whirlwind scoot from place to place, with

He used to practice in his garden I walked past the landing window one day, glancing out over the garden — and the neighbours’ garden beyond. The man of the house next door was busy, building himself what appeared to be wooden-sided raised beds to grow his plants in. I watched for a moment as he furiously sawed at planks, drilled holes and hammered nails. You’d think he’d have enough of that in his day job! I said to myself, but out loud. Loud enough for my daughter to over

An anecdote from my past Patients sometimes arrive at their appointment bearing something they have brought for the GP. A  woman once deposited a jobbie on the corner of my desk. I was a young GP, and could still be shocked. It was keeking at me round the edges of a Heinz Sandwich Spread label, threatening. Gnarled, knobbly, and the colour of hazlenuts, it had expanded to press against the inside of the glass jar and metal lid. There was no smell, at least. Such samples were

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