A few small bones: A novel,

McCaig #1

by Hugh C. Rae

Summer on the moors, and Norman Land makes a gruesome discovery near his country retreat. The bodies of two Glasgow schoolgirls are buried in the heather - and Inspector McGraig's investigation into the lives of this remote Highland community leads him to believe that the twisted killer may strike again.

235 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1968

About the author

Hugh Crauford Rae, aka James Albany, Robert Crawford, R.B. Houston, Caroline Crosby, Stuart Stern (with S. Ungar), Jessica Stirling (with Margaret M. Coghlan)

Hugh Crauford Rae was a son of Isobel and Robert Rae. His father was a riviter. He published his first stories aged 11 in the Robin comic, winning a cricket bat the same year in a children’s writing competition. After graduating from secondary school, he worked as an assistant in the antiquarian department of John Smith's bookshop. At work, he met his future wife, Elizabeth. Published since 1963, he started to wrote suspense novels as Hugh C. Rae, but he also used the pseudonyms of Robert Crawford, R.B. Houston, Stuart Stern (with S. Ungar) and James Albany. On 1973, his novel The Shooting Gallery was nominee by the Edgar Award. On 1974, he wrote the first few romance novels with Peggie Coghlan, using the popular pseudonym Jessica Stirling. However, when she retired 7 years after the first book was published, he continued writing more than 30 on his own, and also as Caroline Crosby. His female pseudonyms first became widely known in 1999, when The Wind from the Hills