Stuart MacBride

'Stuart MacBride is the most exciting thing to happen in British crime fiction in the last ten years…’ Northern Echo

His first book‚ ‘Cold Granite’ was shortlisted for the International Thriller Writers best debut novel, Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award and the International Thriller Writer’s best debut novel award, and won the Barry Award for best first novel. The follow-ups, 'Dying Light' and 'Broken Skin', were both Top Ten bestsellers. Broken Skin won the ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for Breakthrough Author of the Year.  Stuart also won the 2007 CWA Dagger in the Library‚ awarded for a body of work.

Stuart lives in northeast Scotland with his wife Fiona‚ cat Grendel‚ and a vegetable plot full of weeds.

Stuart MacBride is launching is new book 'Blind Eye' in Waterstones, Aberdeen on 29th April.

Visit Stuart MacBride’s official website

Photograph courtesy of Karolina Webb

Dr Lorna Dawson

Dr Lorna Dawson is a Principal Soil Scientist in the Soils Group at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen, and has over 20 years experience in conducting and managing research and application in soil-plant interactions.

One of the main current thrusts of her work is in the research and application of soil and vegetation information in forensic case work, in both the investigative and evaluative phases of police investigations.  She is Head of Soil Forensic Science at the Macaulay Institute, and Principal Investigator on an EPSRC funded research project; SoilFit, and a co-coordinator of an EPSRC funded international geoforensic network, which brings together geoscientists, forensic scientists, police practitioners, statisticians and lawyers. She has also worked on case investigations with various police forces in the UK and with the Forensic Science Service.

She has recently worked on an upcoming episode of BBC’s ‘Silent Witness’ advising writers on forensic soil analysis in a murder story, to be aired in autumn 2009.

She is a member of the British Society of Soil Science, the Institute of Professional Soil Scientists, co-organiser and member of the Scottish Root Group, member of the Science & Technology Facilities Council, Science and Society Advisory Panel and member of The Environmental Knowledge Transfer Network Technical Advisory Group.

Professor Dave Barclay

Professor Dave Barclay is a world renowned forensics expert and Senior Lecturer in Forensic Science at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.

Professor Barclay has worked on some of Britain's highest profile murder cases. He is also a former head of physical evidence for the UK National Crime and Operations Faculty, where he was involved in reviewing more than 200 murder investigations, cold case reviews and inquiries into alleged miscarriages of justice, including the Bloody Sunday inquiry, the Omagh bombing, the World's End murders in Edinburgh, and the Millie Dowler and Soham murders.

His extensive experience also led him into becoming an adviser for the BBC television series 'Waking the Dead' and more recently, the Channel Four documentary, Dispatches, invited Prof Barclay to Praia da Luz, Portugal to review the Portuguese police investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Dr James Grieve

Dr James Grieve is a  Senior Lecturer in Forensic Medicine at the Department of Pathology at the University of Aberdeen and a Police Forensic Pathologist for the North East and Grampian area.

He has carried out numerous post-mortem investigations including sudden unexpected natural events, suicides, homicides and accidents, as well as deaths possibly resulting from medical mishap. He regularly gives evidence in the criminal courts and at Fatal Accident Inquiries.

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