Ken Lussey Author

Ken Lussey

Ken Lussey spent his first 17 years following his family around the world; his father was a Royal Air Force navigator. This was a process involving seven schools and a dozen different postal addresses. He went to Hull University in 1975, where he spent much of his time hitch-hiking around Great Britain, met his wife Maureen and did just enough actual work to gain a reasonable degree in philosophy, that most useful of subjects!

Before getting a 'proper job', he researched and wrote 'A Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Great Britain', which was published by Penguin Books in 1983. He spent the next couple of decades as a civil servant, during which time he fulfilled the long-held ambition of moving to Scotland. In more recent times he has helped Maureen establish the website 'Undiscovered Scotland' as the ultimate online guide to Scotland and come full circle by returning to writing.

Ken's latest novel, published by Arachnid Press in June 2024, is 'The Eye of Horus', an atmospheric World War Two thriller with settings that move from the Highlands of Scotland via Gibraltar to Malta. It is the sixth in his series of thrillers set in Scotland and beyond during World War Two. Its five predecessors, 'Eyes Turned Skywards', 'The Danger of Life', 'Bloody Orkney', 'The Stockholm Run', and 'Hide and Seek', were published between 2018 and 2023. Ken has also written two contemporary thrillers set mainly in northern Scotland, 'The High Road' and 'A Tangled Web'. Both were published in 2023. He has also written 'The House With 46 Chimneys', a spooky adventure story for younger readers set in central Scotland against the background of the early days of the coronavirus lockdown. This was published in late 2020.

Thanks to Carolyn Henry Photography for these photographs. The first was taken at the Houstoun House Hotel in Uphall. The fictional Callum Anderson stays here at the beginning of 'The High Road', the first of Ken's two contemporary thrillers, so it seems a fitting backdrop. The collection of images was taken at the Angus BookFest in Montrose on 18 November 2023 where Ken appeared on an authors' panel.

Due Soon: The Eye of Horus

'The Eye of Horus' is an atmospheric World War Two thriller with settings that move from the Highlands of Scotland via Gibraltar to Malta.

It’s June 1943. Bob and Monique Sutherland are on honeymoon in Kyle of Lochalsh when an unexpected visitor arrives to spoil their idyll.

They agree to travel to Malta to search for two missing men, a young naval lieutenant and an MI6 officer who has disappeared while looking for him. The aerial siege of the island is over and the tide of war has turned but, after three years of bombing, Malta remains a shattered place.

The available leads produce more questions than answers and progress is impeded by lies. As Bob and Monique come closer to discovering what became of the two men, events take a dangerous turn and their priority shifts from enjoying their honeymoon to surviving it.

'The Eye of Horus' will be published by Arachnid Press on 18 June 2024.

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A Tangled Web

'A Tangled Web' is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set in northern Scotland.

Callum Anderson returns to north-west Sutherland to help local GP Jenny Mackay investigate the death of her husband. The authorities say he committed suicide but she’s convinced he was murdered.

As an accountant and a councillor, Iain Mackay was an upstanding pillar of society. Or was he? Callum soon discovers that Iain lied to everyone who thought he loved them: especially his wife and his daughters. He was also a philanderer, a blackmailer and thoroughly corrupt. The possible motives for both murder and suicide begin to mount.

What Callum discovers puts his fledgling relationship with Jenny under real strain. But that becomes the least of their problems when they come up against people who have already killed and would have no qualms about killing again.

'A Tangled Web' was published as an eBook by Arachnid Press on 15 November 2023. The cover design is the work of Carolyn Henry Photography

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