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Grace Monroe is the pseudonym of Linda Watson-Brown (below) and Maria Thomson.

The Brodie McLennan books have now all been completed and published and there will be no more additions to this website.  If you want to contact Linda, please do through via her own site which is www.lindawatsonbrown.co.uk or email her on l.wb@stampless.co.uk

BYE!!!!!

After graduating in Politics and English at Strathclyde University, Linda Watson-Brown completed a Masters degree in Politics, before working for ten years as a Politics lecturer in Scottish universities.  She then began a journalistic career as a thrice-weely columnist at The Scotsman.  She went on to write on a regular basis for the Daily Mail, Big Issue, Daily Record, Sunday Herald and Independent amongst many others, and also developed a career as a ghost-writer. Her first ghost-written book, The Step Child, was published in 2006 and quickly became a Sunday Times best-seller, a success which was repeated with the 2007 paperback edition.  Amongst other things, she was the ghostwriter behind Unbreakable, the story of snooker star Paul Hunter's battle with cancer and the memories of his widow, Lindsey.  This book was also a bestseller in 2007, and was released in paperback in Autumn 2008.   Linda is now working on a screenplay of The Step Child and the sequel to the first book, What Daddy Did, was released in hardback release in August 2008.  This year also saw the release of more ghosted projects, including Jeff Randall's Love Hurts, described as 'the real Trainspotting.'  As well as continuing with ghost-writing, Linda is also working on a crime fiction project under her own name, as well as writing her memoir. She and her family live in the North-East of Scotland.

If you'd like to contact Linda directly about a ghost writing idea, please feel free to do so on: l.wb@stampless.co.uk

In 2003, Linda and Maria met and much later Linda agreed to help Maria with the crime thriller she had been thinking of for some years.  Dark Angels was the first novel in a planned 4 book deal secured by Harper Collins imprint Avon.  It featured (very unlucky) maverick lawyer Brodie McLennan and was followed by Blood Lines and The Watcher (October 2008).