David Ashton

(born 1961 - ) - Greenock

David Ashton was born in Greenock in 1961. After several years working for a bank, he studied at the Central Drama School in London in the mid 1960s and became an actor, appearing in theatre, film and television, including Doctor Who (three appearances), Monarch of the Glen and The Last King of Scotland. In the 1980s he started writing, firstly for radio and then later for television. Ashton won a Radio Times Drama award in 1985 for his play The Old Ladies at the Zoo.

His BBC radio series featuring Victorian Inspector McLevy has since been adapted by Ashton as novels, and are based on the real life James McLevy, an Irish Police Detective working in Leith in the 1830s who wrote his memoirs in the 1860s.

David Ashton now lives in London, where he continues to write and act.

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  Behind The Curtain - Paperback
  'Behind the Curtain' sees McLevy team up with Arthur Conan Doyle to pursue a ruthless killer. It is 1860 and a Confederate officer, Jonathen Sinclair, arrives in Edinburgh with a sheaf of money to purchase a blockade-runner from Clydeside shipbuilders.
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  Fall From Grace - Paperback
  Revolving around the Tay Bridge Disaster, this story begins with a break-in and murder at the Edinburgh home of Sir Thomas Bouch, the enigmatic architect of the Tay Bridge. McLevy follows a trail of brutal killings, lethal liaisons, and double suicide which leads to a violent encounter with an old enemy, Hercules Dunbar.
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  Shadow Of The Serpent - Paperback
  A tale of politics, perversion, deception and mystery, 'Shadow of the Serpent' leads the reader down a tangled Victorian labyrinth of Edinburgh wynds and will thrill contemporary nerve-ends.

Bibliography

• In the Shadow of the Serpent - 2006
• Fall from Grace - 2007
• Behind the Curtain - 2009
• For Unto Us - 2009
• A Trick of the Light - 2009