Shadow Selves - Softcover

Sometimes death is only the beginning of the story... Professor Hayne, of the University of Grampian, Scotland, was a sick man, but his post-operative death seemed far from natural. Mistakes in both surgical and anaesthetic procedures suggested that someone intervened to make sure he didn’t survive. And sometimes two closed worlds collide when you look close enough... DCI Jack Carston faces a united hospital staff insisting that the two fatal ‘errors’ couldn’t have happened. As he investigates further, Carston discovers that a student in Hayne's department, Sandra Scott, is being sexually harassed by a member of the department and targeted by a stalker. Leaving only shadows to reveal the truth... Politics makes for strange bedfellows in the world of academia and medical maneuvering. Following the convoluted strands takes Carston in unexpected directions as he unravels the mystery. What he finds is a final twist that surprises even him.

Bill Kirton was born in Plymouth, England but has lived in Aberdeen Scotland for most of his life. He’s been a university lecturer, presented TV programmes, written and performed songs and sketches at the Edinburgh Festival, and had many radio plays broadcast by the BBC and the Australian BC. He’s written four books on study and writing skills in Pearson’s ‘Brilliant’ series and his crime novels, Material Evidence, Rough Justice, The Darkness, and the historical novel The Figurehead, set in Aberdeen in 1840, have been published in the UK and USA. His most recent publication from Pfoxmoor is a hilarious satire of the spy and crime genres, The Sparrow Conundrum. His short stories have appeared in several anthologies and Love Hurts was chosen for the Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 2010. Two of his books have won awards. The Sparrow Conundrum was the winner of the ‘Humor’ category in the 2011 Forward National Literature Awards and The Darkness was second in the ‘Mystery’ category.