Shirley McKay

A Hew Cullen Mystery

1 - Hue and Cry (Apr-2010)
2 - Fate and Fortune (May-2010)
3 - Time and Tide (May-2011)
4 - Friend and Foe (May-2014)
5 - Queen & Country (Sep-2015)

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  Hue and Cry
  

  • Apr-2010
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  A Hew Cullen Mystery - 1
  

  1579, St. Andrews. A thirteen-year old boy meets his death on the streets of the university city of St. Andrews and suspicion falls upon one of the regents at the university, Nicholas Colp. Hew Cullan, a young lawyer recently returned home from Paris...

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  Fate and Fortune
  

  • May-2010
  • / Historical
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  A Hew Cullen Mystery - 2
  

  In the sixteenth century, a girl is found dead on the beach at St Andrews, Scotland, and a young scholar of the law must play sleuth. 1581: Young St Andrews academic Hew Cullan is unhappy with his life and disillusioned with the law. After his father...

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  Time and Tide
  

  • May-2011
  • / Historical
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  A Hew Cullen Mystery - 3
  

  A shipwreck brings excitement -- and tragedy -- to a sixteenth-century town, and a reluctant lawyer is drawn into the mystery behind it . . . In the swell of a storm, a ship is wrecked in Scotland’s St Andrews harbor. A young Flemish sail...

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  Friend and Foe
  

  • May-2014
  • / Historical
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  A Hew Cullen Mystery - 4
  

  From the author of the bestselling Hue & Cry. “Fans of C. J. Sansom and Shona MacLean will find much to admire in this gripping mystery” (Historical Novel Society).   St Andrews, 1583. The young king, James VI, is confined at Falkla...

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  Queen & Country
  

  • Sep-2015
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Hew Cullen Mystery - 5
  

  Praise for the Hew Cullan mysteries: ‘WONDERFUL STUFF’ Good Book Guide ‘WELL WRITTEN, UNUSUAL AND ENTERTAINING’ Allan Massie ‘SUPERIOR HISTORICAL THRILLER’ The Herald ‘CHARMS THE READER’ Scotland on Sunday 1587. After three long years...

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  Candlemas
  

  • Feb-2016
  • / General Fiction
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  On Candlemas eve an apprentice candle maker finds his master, John Blair, dead in his workshop, and the evidence points to the surgeon Sam Sturrock. Enlisted by Sturrock's desperate apprentice, Hew Cullan, together with his friend and physician Giles...

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  Queen and Country
  

  • Apr-2016
  • / Mystery
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  1587. Three years after his enforced departure to London, Hew is reconciled with King James VI and recalled to Scotland. He elopes to St Andrews with a young Englishwoman. The death of Mary, Queen of Scots has unleashed a wave of anti-English sentime...

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  Whitsunday
  

  • May-2016
  • / General Fiction
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  Whitsunday is the second instalment of 1588: A Calendar of Crime, a collection of short stories published in step with the sixteenth century calendar. When a regent of St Salvator's appears to lose his wits, it falls to Giles and Hew to discern the c...

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  Lammas
  

  • Aug-2016
  • / General Fiction
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  Lammas is the third instalment of 1588: A Calendar of Crime, a collection of short stories published in step with the sixteenth century calendar. Lammas day, a day of celebration for some.Elspet, a serving girl at the harbour inn has been told for ye...

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  1588: A Calendar of Crime
  

  • Nov-2016
  • / Historical
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  Stories starring a sleuthing Scottish lawyer: “McKay’s command of plot, place and character makes these 16th century St Andrews-set mysteries a delight.” -- The Scotsman A grisly murder. A vanishing corpse. A secret romance. A ghostly tale. An...

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  Martinmas
  

  • Nov-2016
  • / Historical
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  Martinmas is the fourth instalment of 1588: A Calendar of Crime, a collection of short stories published in step with the sixteenth century calendar.In St Salvator's college at the start of the academic year a young student claims that he has se...

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  Yule
  

  • Dec-2016
  • / Historical
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  Yule is the fifth instalment of 1588: A Calendar of Crime, a collection of short stories published in step with the sixteenth century calendar.Despite prohibitions on celebrating Yule, the old traditions still persist among the tenant farmers on Hew'...

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