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Louise writes...

All four of my novels are quests, but their central characters and locations are very different from each other.

Rilke, the anti-hero in 'The Cutting Room', is a gay, Glaswegian auctioneer who is driven to discover the truth about a collection of disturbing photographs he finds in the house of a dead man.

Poet, playwright and spy, Christopher Marlowe strides through sixteenth century London in 'Tamburlaine Must Die', on the trail of one of his most ruthless creations, Tamburlaine the Great.

'The Bullet Trick' is set firmly in the twenty-first century and divides its action between Glasgow and Berlin. William Wilson is a down at heel conjurer who accepts an offer to perform in a Berlin cabaret. This book was the most fun to research and was partly prompted by an urge to rewrite WB Pabst’s 1929 movie Pandora’s Box.

English lecturer Murray Watson has the least glamorous job of all of my protagonists, but his journey is the darkest of the lot. 'Naming The Bones' takes him from the calm of the National Library of Scotland to a sparsely populated Scottish island and the mud of an ancient burial ground.