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When the past comes back to haunt you. ‘The Danger of Life’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.

This modern image shows the Clan Cameron Museum close to Achnacarry Castle in Lochaber. The castle was home to the Commando Basic Training Centre during the war and much of the story is set here.

Find out more on my website:
http://www.kenlussey.com/dol/index.html

The image shows an oblique view of a long white single storey building with four windows, a central door and a pitched slate roof with two white chimney stacks. Its right end is nearest to the viewer. At the far end is a flagpole with a red and yellow striped flag while this side of the building is an old artillery piece. There are wooded hills in the background. The front cover of ‘The Danger of Life’ is shown in the bottom left corner.

The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton

I almost stopped reading this book about an hour in. It seemed so trite and too YA. But I decided to give it more of a shot. Ho.lee.shit! The twist about halfway through was awesome and worth the slow start!

Four late-ish 20 somethings accidentally steal a mothballed spaceship and take off to Proxima Centauri, trying to solve the biggest mystery of their lifetimes en route.

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The siege is over but the war goes on. Ken Lussey’s new novel ‘The Eye of Horus’ is an atmospheric World War Two thriller with settings that move from the Highlands of Scotland via Gibraltar to Malta.

Fort St Angelo served as the headquarters of the Royal Navy in Malta during World War Two and is visited by the book’s two central characters as the story builds towards its climax.

Find out more on our website:
https://www.arachnid.scot/book-eoh/index.html

The image shows a telephoto view of Fort St Angelo seen slightly from above and across Malta’s Grand Harbour. The high walls of the fort rise in two layers of bright light stone from the waters of the harbour, which wrap around both sides of it. There are buildings in the upper parts of the fort and beyond it is Birgu. The scene is in bright sunlight which is coming slightly from the right. The front cover of ‘The Eye of Horus’ is shown in the top left corner.

A city at peace in a world at war. ‘The Stockholm Run’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland and Sweden during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.

During the war Dundas Castle, south of Queensferry, was taken over by the RAF and became the headquarters of a barrage balloon squadron defending the Firth of Forth against enemy bombers. It has a key role in the early part of the novel.

Find out more:
http://www.kenlussey.com/tsr/index.html

The image shows a frontal view of Dundas Castle in bright sunlight, though under dark skies. There’s a long shadow of a tree extending out across the grass in the foreground towards the castle. The front cover of 'The Stockholm Run' is shown in the top left corner.

How far would you go to right a wrong? ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is a spooky adventure story for younger readers involving a two-century-old family mystery and the haunting of Dunmore Park, a ruined house in central Scotland.

This is a view of the ruins of Dunmore Park from the rear, showing many of the surviving chimneys. This is the first view the central characters have of the house, before they begin to uncover its secrets.

Find out more:
https://www.arachnid.scot/book-h46c/index.html

The image shows a view of the rear of the remains of Dunmore Park. There are trees and ruins in the foreground with, beyond, parts of the house that are standing to their full height, all slightly silhouetted against the sun. The front cover of ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is shown in the bottom left corner.