About Dark Loch:
Dark Loch is a dark Scottish crime novel set in the atmospheric setting of St Andrews and the haunting lochs of the Highlands of Scotland.
Effie Mcmanus is a strong independent woman; a loner whose life is turned upside down when her brother dies after eating poisonous mushrooms. At first, Effie believes this is a tragic accident but quickly becomes suspicious. She teams up with Pavel – a warm-hearted drifter – who shares her concerns. They make a quirky team of detectives but form a close bond and together, uncover evidence that Bruno was murdered.
However they cannot convince the police, and eventually Pavel decides to drop the case and tells Effie she should do the same, but Effie cannot let go until justice has been served. She decides to take matters into her own hands.
What follows is full of surprising twists and shocking turns that will keep you guessing until the end.
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Author Bio:
Keddie Hughes was born in Glasgow and for the past 30 years has built a successful career as a psychologist advising companies how to get the best out of their people. A shortened version of her Doctoral thesis on Trust was published in the academic press in 2014. Although passionate about her work in large multi national organisations, she has always had the ambition to write fiction. As a young girl she was obsessed with reading and writing stories but career, marriage and children intervened. Now she has decided to allow thirty years of suppressed story telling to be released. An Obstinate Vanity is her debut novel.