LEXIE CONYNGHAM
LOCAL HISTORICAL CRIME FICTION
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Lexie Conyngham is a historian living in the shadow of the Highlands. Her historical crime novels are born of a life amidst Scotland’s old cities, ancient universities and hidden-away aristocratic estates, but she has written since the day she found out that people were allowed to do such a thing. Beyond teaching and research, her days are spent with wool, wild allotments and a wee bit of whisky.
Murray of Letho
We first meet Charles Murray when he’s a student at St. Andrews University in Fife in 1802, resisting his father’s attempts to force him home to the family estate to learn how it’s run. Pushed into involvement in the investigation of a professor’s death, he solves his first murder before taking up a post as tutor to Lord Scoggie. This series takes us around Georgian Scotland as well as India, Italy and Norway (so far!), in the company of Murray, his manservant Robbins, his father’s old friend Blair, the enigmatic Mary, and other members of his occasionally shambolic household.
Hippolyta Napier
Hippolyta Napier is only nineteen when she arrives in Ballater, on Deeside, in 1829, the new wife of the local doctor. Blessed with a love of animals, a talent for painting, a helpless instinct for hospitality, and insatiable curiosity, Hippolyta finds her feet in her new home and role in society, making friends and enemies as she goes. Ballater may be small but it attracts great numbers of visitors, so the issues of the time, politics, slavery, medical advances, all affect the locals. Hippolyta, despite her loving husband and their friend Durris, the sheriff’s officer, manages to involve herself in all kinds of dangerous adventures in her efforts to solve every mystery that presents itself.
Orkneyinga Murders
Orkney, c.1050 A.D.: Thorfinn Sigurdarson, Earl of Orkney, rules from the Brough of Birsay on the western edges of these islands. Ketil Gunnarson is his man, representing his interests in any part of his extended realm. When Sigrid, a childhood friend of Ketil’s, finds a dead man on her land, Ketil, despite his distrust of islands, is commissioned to investigate. Sigrid, though she has quite enough to do, decides he cannot manage on his own, and insists on helping – which Ketil might or might not appreciate.
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Email: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Lexie-Conyngham-826936964051013
Website: http://www.lexieconyngham.co.uk
Blog: https://www.murrayofletho.blogspot.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LConyngham
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lexie-Conyngham/e/B008XH0YQ2
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4998488.Lexie_Conyngham
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexieconyngham
Murray of Letho
We first meet Charles Murray when he’s a student at St. Andrews University in Fife in 1802, resisting his father’s attempts to force him home to the family estate to learn how it’s run. Pushed into involvement in the investigation of a professor’s death, he solves his first murder before taking up a post as tutor to Lord Scoggie. This series takes us around Georgian Scotland as well as India, Italy and Norway (so far!), in the company of Murray, his manservant Robbins, his father’s old friend Blair, the enigmatic Mary, and other members of his occasionally shambolic household.
Hippolyta Napier
Hippolyta Napier is only nineteen when she arrives in Ballater, on Deeside, in 1829, the new wife of the local doctor. Blessed with a love of animals, a talent for painting, a helpless instinct for hospitality, and insatiable curiosity, Hippolyta finds her feet in her new home and role in society, making friends and enemies as she goes. Ballater may be small but it attracts great numbers of visitors, so the issues of the time, politics, slavery, medical advances, all affect the locals. Hippolyta, despite her loving husband and their friend Durris, the sheriff’s officer, manages to involve herself in all kinds of dangerous adventures in her efforts to solve every mystery that presents itself.
Orkneyinga Murders
Orkney, c.1050 A.D.: Thorfinn Sigurdarson, Earl of Orkney, rules from the Brough of Birsay on the western edges of these islands. Ketil Gunnarson is his man, representing his interests in any part of his extended realm. When Sigrid, a childhood friend of Ketil’s, finds a dead man on her land, Ketil, despite his distrust of islands, is commissioned to investigate. Sigrid, though she has quite enough to do, decides he cannot manage on his own, and insists on helping – which Ketil might or might not appreciate.
Contact Lexie Conyngham via...
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Lexie-Conyngham-826936964051013
Website: http://www.lexieconyngham.co.uk
Blog: https://www.murrayofletho.blogspot.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LConyngham
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lexie-Conyngham/e/B008XH0YQ2
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4998488.Lexie_Conyngham
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexieconyngham
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