Authors: Alex Gray
I would like to thank the following people for their help in researching this novel: Anne Smith, Concerts Manager, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Superintendent Ronnie Beattie, former Deputy Divisional Commander ‘U’ Division, Strathclyde Police; the late Margaret Paton, Procurator Fiscal Depute of the Crown Office and Fiscal Service; Dr Marjorie Black, Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Glasgow; Stringers of Edinburgh; the staff of Glasgow Royal Concert Hall especially Cliff Brown, Donald Ball, Keith Marshall and Jane Donald; Pat Leonard of the Hamish Allan Centre, Glasgow and last, but by no means least, Graham Taylor and all my friends past and present members of the City of Glasgow Chorus.
A
LEX
G
RAY
was born and educated in Glasgow. She has worked as a folk singer, a visiting officer for the Department of Social Security and an English teacher. She has been awarded the Scottish Association of Writers’ Constable and Pitlochry trophies for her crime writing. Married with a son and daughter, she now writes full time.
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‘Shadows and Silences’ from Collected Poems
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