Main Characters

Cathy Stewart

Cathy Stewart is a forty-something, divorced mother-of-two. She’s also a private investigator based in Glasgow, Scotland. An ex-policewoman, Cathy set up on her own when she divorced the father of her twin daughters, Sophie and Emma. It hasn’t always been easy, raising the girls and trying to make it in a male-dominated, cut-throat business, but she is fiercely independent and determined to make ends meet. Her office is in the back of a betting shop and she relies heavily on word-of-mouth to keep the business afloat.

Apart from her daughters and her work, Cathy loves to cook. She manages to get to the gym once a week but there is little time left over in her life for socialising or even romance.

Lee Thomson

Lily “Lee” Thomson is smart, sassy and single. And she just can’t seem to stay out of trouble. We first meet Lee at a key moment in her life. She is about to turn thirty and wonders what went wrong in her life so far. She has nobody “special” and a dead-end job keeping her afloat. Her future seems bleak.

Lee has a near-death experience and this shakes her up. She joins forces with Cathy in book one and their unlikely collaboration continues throughout the series.

Steve Stanton

Cathy receives a helping hand in her cases by Steve Stanton, a police officer and former colleague. Their history goes back a long way and they are linked by a desire to prove the wrongdoing of a senior police officer that both have fallen foul of.

Goodfellow

Cathy’s nemesis, Detective Chief Inspector John Goodfellow, is a senior police officer who Cathy worked for back in her days on the force. She has never fully trusted him and dislikes his attitude to women in general. Cathy would love to prove that Goodfellow is as corrupt is she knows him to be, but it seems difficult to make accusations stick.