Shirley McKay

Fife

Although born in Tynemouth, author Shirley McKay now lives and writes in Fife. She studied English and Linguistics at the University of St Andrews, and later read Romantic and seventeenth-century prose at Durham University. She writes historical crime fiction set in St Andrews in the 16th century, featuring academic and lawyer Hew Cullan. Her novels are peppered with archaic Scots words.

McKay was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger for Hue & Cry. She has also written a non-fiction travel guide, The Wee Book of Fife. She works as a freelance proofreader, and is working on the fourth Hew Cullan novel.

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Fate & Fortune
Shirley McKay - Paperback - Polygon
It is 1581, and after his father's death, St Andrews academic Hew Cullan is invited by the advocate Richard Cunningham to complete his legal education in Edinburgh. There he finds his father's manuscript entitled 'In Defence of the Law'. At first, he resists its influence, but then a young girl is found dead on the beach at St Andrews.
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Hue & Cry
Shirley McKay - Paperback - Polygon
1579, St Andrews. A 13 year-old boy meets his death on the streets of the university city of St Andrews and suspicion falls upon one of the regents at the university, Nicholas Colp. Hew Cullan, a young lawyer recently returned home from Paris, investigates.
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Time & Tide
Shirley McKay - Paperback - Polygon
A ship hits St. Andrews, the crew inside dead. The townspeople fight over its more valuable cargo, their petty squabbling turning to rage and tragedy. Hew Cullen traces the ship back to Ghent where he discovers a strange secret.
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The Wee Book Of Fife
Shirley McKay - Paperback - Black & White
Fishing villages such as Elie, Anstruther and Crail all feature in this collection of photographs comparing old with new, as well as the historic town of Dunfermline with its magnificent abbey, Culross with its crow-stepped roofs, industrial Kirkcaldy and St Andrews, home of golf and Scotland's oldest university.