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You can’t ask a dead man who pulled the trigger. ‘A Tangled Web’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set in northern Scotland.

The fictional Sarclet Castle on the east coast of Caithness south of Wick is visited by two of the characters as the story builds towards its climax. Sarclet Castle is partly based on the Castle of Mey, shown in this image, with some internal elements borrowed from Eilean Donan Castle.

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

The fictional Sarclet Castle, partly based on the real Castle of Mey. The image shows a lawn in the foreground with a drive sweeping round it. Beyond is the front face of a castle made of honey-coloured stone. It has a five-storey tower on the right with a four-storey range to the left of it with a grey slate roof and a two-storey extension on the left, plus a grand entrance in the middle. The sky is blue and the scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘A Tangled Web’ is shown in the top left corner.

Relentless pursuit and a grisly murder. ‘Hide and Seek’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle and more widely across Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.

This modern image shows the Great Hall at Stirling Castle. The army converted it for use as barracks in the early 1800s, which involved the insertion of extra floors to accommodate 400 troops.

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

This modern image shows the Great Hall at Stirling Castle. It is shown end-on from a high vantage point and the beige harling is very striking in bright sunlight. There is an external wooden staircase leading up to a door in one corner and the roofline is highly decorated. A dark stone building can be seen on the left and another smaller one on the right. The front cover of ‘Hide and Seek’ is shown in the top right corner.

For any of you with tiny relatives who haven't yet come across Edward Gorey's "The Gashleycrumb Tinies" I can highly recommend it. My godson - a child with a particularly sunny disposition - absolutely adored it when he was three.
For some reason, the last panel "Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin" used to make him giggle uncontrollably every single time we read it together.
Here's an example:

Four panels from Edward Gorey's book The Gashleycrumb Tinies", illustrated in simple grescale sketching. TL: A little girl tumbling head first down some steps, with the caption "A is for Amy who fell down the stairs" TR: A small boy looking over his shoulder at two bears, with the caption "B is for Basil assaulted by bears" BL: A young girl laying on a bad under a blanket, with the caption "C is for Clara who wasted away" BR: A young boy on his back in the snow, with the caption "D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh"