’David Ashton’s writing is excellent, his characters thoroughly convincing, and his narrative grabs you - I was going to say, by the throat - and doesn’t let you go.’ - The Sherlock Holmes Society of London
‘McLevy is a sort of Victorian Morse with a heart, prowling the mean wynds and tenements of the endless fascinating city. David Ashton impeccably evokes Edinburgh so vividly that you can feel the cold in your bones and the menace of the Old Town’s steep cobbles and dark corners.’ Financial Times
’Dripping with melodrama and derring-do.’ - The Herald
‘Ashton’s McLevy ... is a man obsessed with meting out justice, and with demons of his own.’ The Scotsman
The second in a new series of
McLevy books ,
Fall from Grace, revolves around the terrible Tay Bridge Disaster. The story begins with a break-in and murder at the Edinburgh home of Sir Thomas Bouch. Bouch is at the height of his powers, the enigmatic, egotistical builder of the Tay Bridge. McLevy is brought in to investigate. With the help of brothel madam, Jean Brash, McLevy finds the murderer, the dangerous, self-destructive Hercules Baxter but there is much, much more to unfold: murder, arson, sexual obsession and suicide.
Read an article about the creation of Inspector James McLevy by author David Ashton.
David Ashton was born in Greenock in 1941. He studied at Central Drama School, London, from 1964 to 1967. David started writing in 1984 and he has seen many of his plays and TV adaptations broadcast – he wrote early episodes of EastEnders and Casualty, and four McLevy series for BBC Radio 4. A 90-minute film of McLevy has been commissioned by STV. 
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