in Park Lane as 'Hard, cynical and so funny it actually made me cry,' going on to describe it as, 'a brilliant but strangely bleak book'. Fourth novel: Spying on Strange Men Carole Morin's fourth novel, Spying on Strange Men, was published by Dragon Ink in 2013. It tells the story of Vivien Lash, a glamorous artist with a mysterious diplomat husband who adores her. She spends her time gleefully tracking her 'installation', which is what she calls her 'creepy neighbour'. Jackie McGlone in the Scotsman describes it as "Double Indemnity without the insurance policy, a love story gone very, very wrong". 'It's a twisted love triangle about a woman who loves her husband but wants to kill him,' Morin expands 'She's insuring her heart against him. And her boyfriend is really rich so they don't need the money to escape.' Richard Godwin describes the book as 'a compelling, unsettling Noir novel written in sharp, elegant prose with scenes that move between surreal humour and a sudden darkness.' He goes on to praise 'Morin's ability to write characters whose identities are partly self-fiction or who are on the verge of psychosis'. Performances Morin made her performance debut at the South Bank Centre and has appeared there several times, most recently in September 2014. Performances of Spying on Strange Men, the first of which was at the Beijing Bookworm in June 2012, were always marked by an announcement that she would be reading in character as her "evil twin Vivien Lash". Other performance venues include the Society Club Soho and the Glasgow University Literary Society, Resonance FM and on the Soho Radio programme hosted by Jim Sclavunos of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. References External links Carole Morin's official web site. Scottish writers Living people Academics of the University of East Anglia Year of birth missing (living people) Scottish women novelists Writers from Glasgow