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Marianne Wheelaghan

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I left home at seventeen and returned to Edinburgh after twenty-five years, where I now live with my family.

The Blue Suitcase is my first novel. An historic fiction, it was published in 2010. The interest shown in it has been remarkable. It was inspired by my mother's life and based on letters and diaries I found after her death. The novel tells the story of an ordinary Christian girl girl growing up in Nazi Germany.

My first and second crime novels are Food Of Ghosts and The Shoeshine Killer respectively. They are both The Scottish Detective Lady mysteries, featuring the feisty, fictional detective DS Louisa Townsend.

"To read a Scottish Detective Lady mystery is to be taken on a thrilling trip to the Pacific and immersed in its many glori
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The 10-year old Master Criminal …

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Delighted to see my latest piece in The Leither Magazine  (issue 116)

 The 10-year old Master Criminal

It was June 1969. Late afternoon sun flooded the living room. The piano stood by the window. I plonked on it while glancing up and down the street. I was on the horns of a dilemma. Should I pinch a biscuit or make myself a jam piece? The biscuit tin was in the kitchen on top of the dresser,

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The Blue Suitcase

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Food of Ghosts

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