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 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 McBride
‘Readable. Very readable. Every last word.’
Sunday Herald
“Anderson’s work is sharper than a pathologist’s scalpel. One of the best Scottish crime series since Rebus.”
Daily Record
Books by Lin Anderson
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.
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.
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.
Lin’s first three books were first published as trade paperbacks by Luath; mass-market paperback rights have been acquired by Hodder.
France : Editions Payot & Rivages
Russia : Inostranka
Sweden : Natur och Kultur
All other rights : Luath
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
World volume rights : Hodder
Easy Kill
The discovery of the body of a young woman on Glasgow’s Necropolis begins an investigation into the deaths of prostitutes.
September 2008, Hodder