Alanna Knight

Edinburgh

Edinburgh-based crime writer Alanna Knight has written over forty novels since the publication of her award-winning debut Legend of the Loch in 1969. Born and educated in Tyneside, she now lives and writes in Edinburgh after a time in Aberdeen.

She is the creator of the Inspector Faro series of Victoria detective novels, which are set in Edinburgh around the 1870s. Knight also has a series of novels featuring Faro's daughter, Rose McQuinn, and has written a number of historical and gothic novels. She has also written for none-fiction books, numerous short stories, and two plays.

Alanna Knight is one of the three Femmes Fatales, and was a founding member of the Scottish Association of Writers. She is also an artist, and has created portraits of fellow Scottish authors. She has two sons and two grandchildren.

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Blood Line - Hardback
Her Majesty Queen Victoria is expected to visit Edinburgh informally when a man's unidentifiable body is found on the rocks below the castle. DI Jeremy Faro is baffled until his search reveals a jewelled cameo of great antiquity.
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Burke & Hare - Hardback
Pocket-sized, these 'bloody histories' take a fresh look at notorious criminal cases, drawing on hard evidence from the National Archives and elsewhere. From murky alleyways to suburban streets, they present tales of murderers, victims and those who pursued them. This book focuses on Burke & Hare.
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Dangerous Pursuits - Paperback
Rose McQuinn finds herself in danger when she discovers a woman's dead body in ths hills above Edinburgh. When the body disappears, the police doubt her story, and she is left to investigate the murder herself.
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Destroying Angel - Paperback
The autumn of 1897 began well, but within days Rose McQuinn loses two precious things - her fiancé, Jack Macmerry, and her elusive dog, Thane. Her stubborn refusal to give up her job as a Lady Detective lost her the man whose love she had taken for granted.
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Enter Second Murderer - Hardback
The events that cause Inspector Faro to reopen the case of 'The Gruesome Convent Murders' lead him into a labyrinth of passions, betrayal and greed concealed behind the respectable middle-class exteriors of Edinburgh society.
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Faro And The Royals - Paperback
This trilogy features Inspector Faro in three of his most intriguing and dangerous cases as the royal family call on their favourite detective for help.
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Ghost Walk - Paperback
Three years have passed since Rose McQuinn's husband Danny, disappeared in Arizona. Believing him to be dead, she returned to Scotland to start her life afresh. She has now fulfilled her ambition and is about to marry her lover, but pre-wedding jitters become the least of her worries when a ghost is about to walk back into her life.
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The Gowrie Conspiracy - Paperback
After rescuing King James the Sixth from a runaway horse, Tam Eildor finds himself in favour. As the King's new object of affection Tam has become the target for jealous courtiers - and their attentions are seriously hampering his investigation into the murder of Margaret Agnew.
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The Inspector's Daughter - Paperback
In an attempt to recover from the loss of her husband and her baby son, Rose McQuinn has returned home to Edinburgh. But Rose has little time to ponder as she unwittingly steps into the shoes of her father, the legendary Detective Inspector Faro, by agreeing to investigate the strange behaviour of Matthew Bolton.
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Killing Cousins - Hardback
Faro is faced by the possibility that one of his own family is involved in the murder of the laird's wife by arsenic poisoning on the Orkney island of Balfray.
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Murder By Appointment - Paperback
While walking home one night, Inspector Faro meets a terrified woman who claims some men are trying to kill her. Before he can react, Faro is hit over the head, and the next thing he knows, the woman is dead. More murders occur, and Faro spots a link.
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Murder In Paradise - Hardback
The young Inspector Faro stumbles on a plot involving the stealing of a priceless jewel. His investigation leads him to Kent, and on the trail of his nemesis Macheath.
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An Orkney Murder - Paperback
A long awaited holiday for Rose McQuinn, visiting her sister Emily in Orkney, takes on an unexpected and sinister twist when an archaeological dig for the grave of a 13th century princess, the Maid of Norway, unearths a corpse of a more recent date.
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The Stuart Sapphire - Paperback
In August 1811, George, Prince of Wales and the Prince Regent, is horrified to find his mistress Sarah, Marchioness of Creeve, dead in her bed, strangled by the pearls around her neck. The Prince realises what a scandal could ensue, so he enlists Tam Eildor to investigate the murder.
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Unholy Trinity - Hardback
Inspector Jeremy Faro is in County Kerry for a family wedding when a young couple who are guests at the wedding are brutally murdered. At a loss as to what to do, the local police appeal to Faro for help but, before an arrest can be made, there are three more inexplicable deaths.