I say “we” — because Lost Highway is a collaboration with my husband, Scottish crime author Craig Robertson.
The thing is, the story was so good we had to keep going. And hey—we’re just finishing Book 2— and we’re still married!
Lost Highway follows a brash, take-no-prisoners mother on an epic journey into the wilds of California as she searches for her missing daughter.
A year ago, Lou Gomersall’s 19-year old daughter Abby went on a mysterious road trip and vanished without a trace. When the police fail to come up with answers, Lou takes the family RV on the road to investigate other missing persons cases in a desperate mission to find Abby—
Or face her killer.
Read about our co-writing experience in Mystery Reader’s Journal: Partners in Crime
Events
2025
Harrogate, UK
Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
It just wouldn’t be summer without the Harrogate crime festival!
Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland
Bute Noir
Of course we’re putting together another fabulous program for Bute Noir 2025 in our fabulous new venue, the historic Glenburn Hotel. Which doesn’t remind anyone of The Shining at all.
New Orleans, LA
Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention
I’m delighted to be returning to my favorite blue dot for Blood on the Bayou and to be reprising Bouchercon’s Nashville’s Free Books! event, joining authors and librarians reading from and collecting banned books and raising money for local libraries. Now more than ever, read banned books.
Read about Free Books! and the ALA initiative “Unite Against Book Bans”
Stirling, Scotland
Bloody Scotland
We love not having to travel for our hometown Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival, this year chaired by Sir Ian Rankin. Great lineup to be announced shortly!