The Nora Calder Investigations
The Series
TheHaar
A corporate solicitor found dead on the Leith docks in thick fog. The trail leads from Heriot Row to Charlotte Square to a glass tower in Quartermile — uncovering a money laundering operation hidden inside a forty-million-pound waterfront development. A story about old Edinburgh, new money, and decency as a fatal flaw.
TheCrags
A French choreographer found dead at the base of Salisbury Crags during the Edinburgh Festival. The case moves through arts patronage, obsessive love, and a dance piece called Gravity — about falling. A story about performance, passion, and the half-second between reaching for someone and letting go.
TheRuin
Nora's third investigation. Set in the shadow of Craigmillar Castle — in the Edinburgh she grew up in, and has never quite been able to leave behind. A story about construction, corruption, and the history buried beneath the city.
TheGreyfriars (Working Title)
A historian found sealed in Greyfriars Mausoleum after fourteen years. The trail leads back to a man who tortured Covenanters in the seventeenth century — and the institutions that still protect his legacy. A story about history, institutional silence, and what it costs to tell the truth.
