by Grace Monroe
Thanks to Maxine Hitchcock and Keshini Naidoo at Avon, as well as my agent, Jenny Brown. Thanks also go to the Law Society of Scotland, without which this book wouldn’t have been possible.
About the Author
Grace Monroe is the pseudonym of Maria Thomson and Linda Watson-Brown. Maria was born in Edinburgh in 1960, and graduated with a law degree in her early 20s. Soon after she began her traineeship, Maria met her husband-to-be, Gordon, already a partner in a rival firm. The couple now have four children and live in Kingussie, in the Scottish Highlands. Maria stopped practising law some years ago and since then has worked as a hypnotherapist, stage hypnotist, badminton coach, and fertility counsellor amongst many things. A completely new start in the Scottish Highlands has afforded Maria the chance to start the next chapter in her life–as a writer.
After ten years as a Politics lecturer in Scottish universities, Linda Watson-Brown began a journalistic career as a columnist at The Scotsman. She went on to write on a regular basis for the Daily Mail, Big Issue, Daily Record, Sunday Herald and Independent amongst others and also developed a career as a ghostwriter. Her first ghost-written book, The Step Child, was published in 2006 and quickly became a Sunday Times bestseller. She is now working on a screenplay of the book, as well as continuing with ghost-writing and fiction. She, her long-term partner Paul, and their three children are planning to move to the North-East coast of Scotland later this year.
In 2003, Maria and Linda met and became firm friends. They soon realised that they should put their talents and experiences together and write as a team. Dark Angels is the first novel in a planned series featuring Brodie MacLennan. For more information on the pair, visit their website at gracemonroe.net
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Copyright
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2007
Copyright © Grace Monroe 2007
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Extract from Blood Lines © Grace Monroe 2007.
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ISBN: 978-1-84756-034-6
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