From the bestselling author of 2025 smash hit novel 'The Wolf Tree' comes a brand new novel.

'The Cursed Road' by Laura McCluskey (published by HarperCollins Australia) picks up roughly ten months after the events of 'The Wolf Tree' and sees DIs Georgina Lennox and Richard Stewart head to the Scottish Highlands to investigate the murder of a young woman found on a road in a remote corner of the Highlands - a road with a bloody history and the subject of local superstition and legends.

Still dealing with their experiences on Milan Eardar the year before, both George and Richie are not keen to be working together on this case, but a clue found with the victim links the case to something way more sinister.

Atmospheric, gripping and tense, 'The Cursed Road' is every bit as good as 'The Wolf Tree' if not better.

I was delighted to welcome Laura back to the podcast recently.