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Lin Anderson
Lin (Linda) Anderson was born in Greenock of Scottish and Irish parents. A graduate of both Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities, she has lived in many parts of Scotland, and spent five years working in the African bush. A teacher of computing, she began her writing career six years ago. The script of her first film, Small Love (broadcast on Scottish Television in 2001 and 2002), earned her a TAPS Writer of the Year Award 2001 nomination. Lin’s latest novel FINAL CUT has been optioned for television by ITV.
‘Lin Anderson is one of Scotland’s natural treasures—don’t be fooled by comparisons, her writing is unique, bringing warmth and depth to even the seediest parts of Glasgow. Lin’s Rhona MacLeod is a complex and compelling heroine who just gets better with every outing.’
Stuart MacBride
‘Readable. Very readable. Every last word.’
Sunday Herald
‘Lin Anderson is world-class, she is here to stay and the dark side of her imagination is more chilling than Sauchiehall Street in a snowstorm.’
Daily Record
‘The procedural details are spot-on, the storylines sharp and inventive, but it’s the characterisation that makes Anderson’s work truly special. CSI Vegas has Grissom, CSI Miami has Horatio Cane. In the Glasgow crime scene team, Dr McLeod has the skill, instinct and the balls to match up to her American counterparts.’
Daily Record
‘Definitely a cut above the average: vivid and atmospheric…enthralling’ Guardian
http://www.lin-anderson.com
Books by Lin Anderson
The Reborn
The clown suddenly appeared beside a group of kids at the candy floss van, bringing Kira to an abrupt halt. Then it began. The rapid heartbeat, the burst of perspiration, the gasping breath. The baby lurched inside her, as though sharing her panic.
When the body of a pregnant teenager is found in a Hall of Mirrors with the full-term foetus surgically removed, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is called in to assist the police. Suspicion falls on Jeff Coulter, a psychotic inmate at a nearby hospital whose hobby is making Reborns – chillingly realistic baby dolls intended for bereaved parents or those unable to conceive. But how could he have orchestrated the murder from a secure mental facility?
The investigation leads to a group of teenage girls who seem to have all got pregnant at the same time. Then a Reborn doll is discovered near the crime scene and a second girl from the group is found dead..
Creepy, compelling and heart-stoppingly tense, THE REBORN is Lin Anderson’s most powerful novel yet.
August 2010, Hodder
Final Cut
Where the hell had the kid found a human skull?
McNab heard an intake of breath behind him as someone else made out the shape in the torchlight. A metre away now, McNab crouched on a level with the child.
‘Where did you find that, Emma?’ he said softly.
She stared at him. ‘I was lost. I heard them calling me.’
When Claire regains consciousness after a stranger causes her car to crash in a snowstorm, she is frantic to discover her nine-year-old daughter Emma missing from the back seat. Then Emma is found in the woods nearby, unharmed but cradling a child’s skull. She claims it ‘called to her’ – and she can hear another voice nearby… Meanwhile, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is trying to discover the identity of a corpse found badly burned in a skip. The body is wearing a soldier’s ID tag, but DNA tests show it’s not him. When DS Michael McNab asks for her help identifying the remains Emma found, they discover the two cases are linked in ways they could never have imagined…
August 2009, Hodder
Easy Kill
A young woman-a prostitute-has been brutally slain and left across a grave in Glasgow’s sprawling cemetery, the Necropolis. Rhona MacLeod, called in to carry out forensic investigations, has no doubt that the depraved killer’s motives were sexual.
The removal of the girl’s corpse from the city of the dead reveals another woman recently buried underneath, and the case takes on a disturbing new dimension. This man has killed before- and will again. When yet another girl is reported missing, Rhona knows she has to track him down and stop the pattern repeating itself.
September 2008, Hodder
Dark Flight
A six-year old boy has vanished from his own back garden, his mother and grandmother horrifically murdered. At the scene, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod finds a chilling African talisman made from the bones of a child. Then the mutilated torso of a second child is pulled from the river. Has Stephen been snatched by human traffickers who intend to butcher him in a juju ritual?
Can Rhona decipher the talisman’s meaning and track Stephen down before he becomes the next link in the killers’ chain? Her search for truth takes her and her old flame, DS Michael McNab, from Glasgow to Nigeria. There they must try to use science and logic to counter the powerful influence of juju, a religion whose dark side involves black magic and human sacrifice.
July 2007, Hodder
Deadly Code
A decomposing foot is caught in a fishing net off the west coast of Scotland, and forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is called in on a case that takes her back to her Gaelic roots. But when the Ministry of Defence tries to shut down the story, Rhone refuses to be deflected from her quest for the truth.
As the pieces fall into place, she finds herself up against a deadly international conspiracy of shadowy figures and powerful players bent on manipulating life, death, and the future of humanity itself.
Torch
When a young homeless girl dies in an arson attack on an empty building on Edinburgh’s famous Princes Street, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is called in to help find the arsonist.
Severino MacRae, half Scottish / half Italian and all misogynist, has other ideas. As Chief Fire Investigator, this is his baby and he doesn’t want help - especially from a woman. Sparks fly when Rhona and Severino meet, but Severino’s reluctance to involve Rhona may be more about her safety than his prejudice. As Hogmanay approaches, Rhona and Severino play cat and mouse with an arsonist who will stop at nothing to gain his biggest thrill yet.
Driftnet
A teenager is found strangled and mutilated in a Glasgow flat. Leaving her warm bed and lover in the middle of the night to take forensic samples from the body, Foresnic scientist Rhona MacLeod soon recognises the likeness between herself and the dead boy and is horrified to think that he might be the son she gave up for adoption seventeen years before?
Amidst the turmoil of her own love life and consumed by guilt from her past, Rhona sets out to find both the boy’s killer and her own son. But the powerful men who use the Internet to trawl for vulnerable boys have nothing to lose and everything to gain by Rhona MacLeod’s death.
Rights to the Rhona MacLeod novels:
UK : Hodder
France : Editions Payot & Rivages
Russia : Inostranka
Sweden : Natur och Kultur
Holland : Mynx
Italy : Newton Compton Editori
Spain: La Factoria de Ideas
All other rights: Jenny Brown Associates/Hodder
