Lammergeier and Other Stories

A woman looks out of the window to see a body laid  out in her front garden; a birdwatcher on the trail of his  next quarry arrives in the Picos Mountains of Northern  Spain; a young lecturer takes up a teaching post in an  African university … 

In these twelve stories the reader is always being  offered something new, their interest held by the  variety of settings and situations. The tone may be  light and humorous, but it can mask serious and topical  subjects – people-trafficking, a case of historical abuse,  an argument about gender. The stories are skilfully  crafted too; shifts of plot and tone take the reader by  surprise, as when the farce of a boating holiday on the  Norfolk Broads turns into …