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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 beach at Oldshoremore in Sutherland is one of the most magnificent beaches anywhere. It is close to the home of one of the central characters and serves as a backdrop to the story as it develops. The beach also appears on the cover of the book.

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http://www.kenlussey.com/atw/index.html

The beach at Oldshoremore. The image shows an extensive length of beach facing to the left out to sea. It has light-coloured sand and is backed by dunes. There is marram grass at the foot of the frame and a headland sweeps to the left beyond the beach, ending in an island. The sea is rough and there are two tiny figures walling along the beach. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘A Tangled Web’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

8/6: Talk about something you wrote and later removed, and why.
For every novel there’s a ‘Snips’ file, full of bits I’ve removed but kept safe, just in case. For Three Kinds of North the longest of these is a rather turgid discussion between Jerya and Railu after Jerya’s discovered the truth behind the Dawnsong. The elements are still there in the published novel, but spread around and—I hope—handled with a lighter touch.

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.

The busy port of Mallaig lies at the end of the ‘Road to the Isles’. This modern photograph shows it in beautiful weather: quite unlike the stormy day on which a deadly manhunt reaches its climax here in the book.

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http://www.kenlussey.com/dol/index.html

The image shows a view from a pier across a busy harbour towards the village of Mallaig. Small fishing boats are moored up to three abreast and there is a boatyard with slipways beyond them, with boats being repaired and a large shed in the upper left of the frame. The front cover of ‘The Danger of Life’ is shown in the top left corner.