HISSAC Highlands and Islands Short Story Association

Born in Yorkshire and brought up in Devon, Clio Gray has been living in the Highlands of Scotland for the past fifteen years, where she works in her local library of Tain and spends the rest of her time writing books.

Clio Gray

Her first novel, Guardians of the Key, is published by Headline (hardback June 2006, paperback January 2007). A historical crime novel, it flits between the medieval town of Lucca in Tuscany and 1805 London, where the majority of the action takes place. This includes a spectacular suicide, several gruesome murders and the chase to find the location of the lost relics of Lucca, and has been favourably reviewed by [need to check these at work]

Her second novel, a sequel to Guardians, following the crime-solving abilities of Missing Persons Finder Whilbert Stroop, will also be published by Headline.
The Roaring of the Labyrinth is due to be published in hardback June 2007, and features a fiendish plot winding from the shores of the Black Sea and the founding of the City of Odessa, to the Valley of Eden in the Pennine Hills. Stroop and his adopted family of Mabel, Jack and Thomas, are engaged to find missing glass-maker and bell-founder Uwe Proctor Dvoshka. They arrive at Astonishment Hall and trail the missing man through a series of gristly murders and a cold landscape of moors and mist.

Clio Gray has also won many prizes for her short stories, the most notable of which was the Scotsman/Orange Award 2006 for “I should have listened harder…” which can be downloaded as a podcast from the Scotsman website.

Clio can be contacted via this website’s e-mail address : info@hissac.co.uk