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Max Quillan is seeking a change from lecturing and when the Honours of Scotland, its Crown Jewels, are loaned to the V&A Design Museum in Dundee he jumps at the chance to be involved. The V&A is then pressed to host a follow-up exhibition featuring avatars generated by AI. The creator of the AI software, a young Polish man, died apparently in an accident. His ground breaking software now belongs to brothers, Ewan and Noel Kydd, one time pop stars with an unsavoury reputation in the city as dealers in drugs and porn.Arriving in Dundee, Max rents a flat in the former Dundee Royal Infirmary building which overlooks the city centre from the north. To his surprise, the neighbouring flat is occupied by vivacious dentist Lucy Donaldson, on whom he had a crush in his student days but has not seen since. Her brother Logan is now a senior policeman in the city. When a doubt arises about the provenance of the groundbreaking AI tech, Max enlists the help of Lucy and her brother. Together they uncover the criminal activities of the Kydd brothers who have already killed to protect their interests, and will not hesitate to do so again. Hidden in their past is a dark secret captured on an old video cassette which Max is given by someone who is killed soon afterwards. When the Kydds make an attempt on Max's life he hits back by stealing Noel Kydd's cricket bat which has vital forensic evidence of the Polish man's murder. With the net closing in, Kydd prepares to flee but Max uses his contacts in the Paris police to catch him as he boards a train. The gang are brought to trial and Max proposes marriage to Lucy.

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Stolen Images is a great read and I became increasingly drawn in as we went. I felt certain I knew roughly where it might be leading but got it all wrong. And that in itself I found delightful. As the plot twisted and turned I just had to keep reading to see what would unfold."" PETER SCOTT, NORTH DEVON ""The next in the excellent Max Quillan series. Intriguing plot and realistic characters. I look forward to more...."" HANIA ALLEN, AUTHOR OF THE POLISH DETECTIVE SERIES

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Scottish journalist/broadcaster and Presbyterian minister who turned in retirement to crime writing. He produced and presented radio and television programmes mostly for BBC including the acclaimed series on the paranormal in 1980 which contained the only film of the Enfield poltergeist. For twenty years he was a columnist in The Herald newspaper and broke the story of a murderer who became a church minister.Author of ten non-fiction books as Stewart Lamont. His fiction is set in places he has worked such as Gibraltar, Paris and Turin. In the latest books in the Max Quillan series he returns to Edinburgh and his native city of Dundee. Graduate of St Andrews University where he was President of the Union, a hockey blue and later a member of the governing University Court for twelve years.

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