Friend and author, Val Penny...

...makes a very welcome return to my blog this week.  Great to see you back here, Val, and thanks for making time in your busy schedule.  Your Edinburgh Crime series is selling really well, so tell me, why Edinburgh?

VP  Thank you so much for inviting me to your blog today.  I chose Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, as the setting for my series of novels, The Edinburgh Crime Mysteries. The fifth novel 'Hunter's Secret', will be published by Darkstroke on 08.08.2020.

Edinburgh is a beautiful city of around half a million people.  The city is situated on the south banks of the Firth of Forth.  There are some lovely views across the Forth from Edinburgh to the county of Fife on the north of the river. There are three bridges crossing the Firth of Forth: the oldest is the Forth Rail Bridge, built in the nineteenth century, the Forth Road Bridge was built in the twentieth century and the most modern, a bridge for road traffic was completed in the early part of this century, named the Queensferry Crossing.

The delegated parliament of Scotland, that has wide powers over how the people are governed, meets in the Scottish Parliament Building, in the Holyrood district of the city.  Following a referendum in 1997, in which the Scottish electorate voted for devolution, the current Parliament was convened by the Scotland Act of 1998 which sets out its powers as a devolved legislature.  Since September 2004, the official home of the Scottish Parliament has been a  new Scottish Parliament Building in the Holyrood area of Edinburgh.  The Scottish Parliament building was designed by Spanish architect Enric Miralles.  There was much concern at the time as the building was completed many years late and several times over budget.

The Monument, Prince's Street Gardens

The main protagonist of 'Hunter's Secret' is Detective Inspector Hunter Wilson.  He lives in Leith, an area to the north of the City and drinks in his local pub, the Persevere Bar.  He plays darts in the pub darts team, but he is almost always late for matches.  His home is also close to one of the main soccer grounds in Edinburgh, the Hibernian Football Ground.  Hibernian Football Club, commonly known as Hibs, is a Scottish professional football club based in Leith and he referees the junior team.

AW  Fascinating and a favourite city of mine to visit, too.

VP  I hope your readers will enjoy the next case that Hunter and his team have to solve in the new novel Hunter’s Secret.

about the author… Val is an American author living in SW Scotland with her husband and their cat.

Her crime novels, Hunter's Chase Hunter's Revenge, Hunter's Force Hunter’s Blood and Hunter’s Secret form the bestselling series The Edinburgh Crime Mysteries.  They are set in Edinburgh, Scotland, and published by Darkstroke.  Her first non-fiction book Let’s Get Published is also available now and she has most recently contributed her short story, Cats and Dogs to a charity anthology, Dark Scotland.

about the book… Detective Inspector Hunter Wilson is called to the scene of a murder.  DCsTim Myerscough and Bear Zewedu found a corpse, but when Hunter arrives it has disappeared, and all is not as it seems.

Hunter recalls the disappearance of a dead body thirty years earlier.  The Major Incident Team is called in but sees no connection – it is too long ago. Hunter is determined to investigate the past and the present with the benefit of modern DNA testing.

Tim has other problems in his life.  His father, Sir Peter Myerscough, is released from jail.  He, too, remembers the earlier murder.  There is no love lost between Hunter and Sir Peter.  Will Hunter accept help from his nemesis to catch a killer?

Hunter’s own secret is exciting and crucial to his future.  Will it change his life? And can he keep Edinburgh safe?

You can follow Val on her Website on Facebook Twitter  Goodreads  and on Bookbub

You can get the Hunter Wilson mysteries 

on Amazon along with all her other books