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LAURA MCCLUSKY In Person With Craig

LAURA MCCLUSKY In Person With Craig

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Published: 18 March 2025 at 07:00 Europe/London

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Laura McCLUSKEY chats to Craig Sisterson about her new crime thriller THE WOLF TREE, the Scottish lighthouse mystery, film and book, writing the sequel, 

THE WOLF TREE A mysterious death. On a small island off the coast of Scotland, an isolated community is grieving. Eighteen-year-old Alan Ferguson was found at the foot of the lighthouse – an apparent suicide. Two detectives trapped on an island. DIs Georgina Lennox and Richard Stewart are sent to investigate. But a raging storm keeps them trapped on the island for four days. And the locals don’t take kindly to mainlanders. A village full of suspects. As George and Ritchie question the island’s inhabitants, they discover a village filled with superstition and shrouded in secrets. But someone wants those secrets to stay buried. At any cost.

Laura McCluskey is a Melbourne-based writer, editor and actor. She created the production company Sibylline Films and co-founded Three Fates Theatre Company. The Wolf Tree is her first novel.

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