the two major historical series, she wrote The Crystal Skull, a dual timeline novel entered around a mythic Mayan skull, with a historical thread set in the Tudor era and a contemporary thriller set in modern-day Cambridge. She began her dual time line novels with a fast-paced, 'swift and vigorous' thriller, Into the Fire, which explores the truth behind the myth of Jeanne d'Arc – and the impact those revelations could have on modern day (2014) France. A Treachery of Spies, winner of the 2019 McIlvanney Prize, is another dual time line, this explores the impacts of actions by the Maquis, the SOE, the Jedburghs, and in particular, the nascent CIA on the present. It was announced in May 2020 that veteran Harry Potter producer David Barron, and Enriched Media Group have secured all TV, film and ancillary rights to A Treachery of Spies and a TV adaptation was planned. In 2010, she founded the Historical Writers' Association, of which she remained Chair until 2015. Other activities She has written regular columns for The Herald (formerly The Glasgow Herald), reviews and columns for The Independent, intermittent columns for The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Times and Huffington Post, and has appeared occasionally on BBC Radio 4. Works Kellen Stewart Hen's Teeth (1997) Night Mares (1998) Stronger Than Death (1999) The Boudica Series Dreaming the Eagle (2003) Dreaming the Bull (2004) Dreaming the Hound (2005) Dreaming the Serpent Spear (2006) Rome The Emperor's Spy (2010) The Coming Of The King (June 2011) The Eagle Of The Twelfth (May 2012) The Art of War (March 2013) Inès Picaut Into The Fire (2015) A Treachery of Spies (2018) Stand-alone novels No Good Deed (2001) The Crystal Skull (2007) Non-fiction 2012: Everything You Need to Know about the Apocalypse Appearance in anthologies 99%: In Fresh Blood 3: edited by Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski (1999) New English Library Book of Internet Stories (2000) Scottish Girls About Town: And Sixteen Other Scottish Women Authors (2003) Little Black Dress: An Anthology of Short Stories edited by Susie Maguire References External links 1962 births Living people Writers of historical fiction set in antiquity Alumni of the University of Glasgow Date of birth missing (living people) Scottish women novelists Scottish crime fiction writers Scottish historical novelists Writers from Glasgow 20th-century Scottish novelists 21st-century Scottish novelists 21st-century Scottish writers 20th-century Scottish women writers 21st-century Scottish women writers Women mystery