Rob McInroy

Rob McInroy is a novelist and short story writer living in East Yorkshire but hailing from Perthshire, where most of his writing is set, spanning a period from the 1920s to the 2010s.

His website is at robmcinroy.co.uk

His first novel, Cuddies Strip, was published by Ringwood Publishing in 2020. It tells the real-life story of the murder of a young man and rape of a young woman on the Cuddies Strip, a lovers’ lane on the outskirts of Perth, in 1935.

The protagonist, PC Bob Kelty, is a most unlikely police officer. Aged 20, he is exceptionally shy and diffident with authority figures, and is also still struggling to overcome the trauma of his father’s suicide when Bob was thirteen. But beneath the shy exterior is a keen brain and Bob, frustrated by the lack of progress by his senior officers, takes matters into his own hands.

The follow-up novel, Barossa Street, begins on the night of the death of George V and has the subsequent abdication crisis as a backdrop. When a friend of Bob’s is charged with murder, Bob is convinced that homophobia is a factor and, although he has now left the police, he begins to investigate.

The third novel, Moot, takes place in July 1939, weeks before the outbreak of the second world war. Over 3500 young Rover Scouts congregate at Monzie Castle for the Third International Rover Scout Moot. Among them is a killer. Or maybe more than one…