Fred Buchanan is a forty-year-old ex-cop turned private detetive working the backstreets of Edinburgh. Chain-smoking Camels and drinking Stolichnaya vodka straight from the bottle, Fred takes on the cases no one else wants—missing persons, cheating spouses, and quiet favours for lawyers with dirty secrets.
He’s sharp, cynical, and unflinchingly tenacious, with a memory like flypaper and a knack for seeing what others miss. Haunted by mistakes, driven by a stubborn sense of justice,
Fred is a man who’s been through the fire—and might still be standing in the smoke.
Coming Soon...
Book One in a Fred Buchanan Mystery
A teenage girl vanishes.
Her mother wants answers.
Someone wants the questions buried.
Ex-cop Fred Buchanan takes the case—and walks straight into a web of lies, blood, and old ghosts.
LOST SUMMER… Coming Soon.
Some cases crack wide open. Others drag you under.
Coming Soon...
Book Two in a Fred Buchanan Mystery
When a respected geologist is found dead on a mountainside near the remote Highland village of Strathdoran, private dectective Fred Buchanan isn’t interested. Missing person cases are bad business. But when the dead man’s past doesn’t add up—and the woman who asked for Fred’s help turns out to be someone else entirely—he finds himself pulled into a landscape thick with secrets.
At the heart of it all lies a decaying estate, a walled garden hiding more than roses, and a mining legacy that someone is willing to kill to keep buried. As Fred digs deeper, he uncovers a web of corruption, betrayal, and buried grief, where even the cleanest hands are dirty and truth comes with a body count.
EDGE OF REASON… Coming Soon.
Some cases crack wide open. Others drag you under.