To the Shades Descend

Allan Gaw is a Scot who lives and works near Glasgow. He studied medicine and is a pathologist by training but a writer by inclination. Having worked in the NHS and universities in Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and the US, he now devotes his time to writing. Most of his published work to date is non-fiction. These include medical textbooks and regular magazine articles on topics as diverse as the thalidomide story, the medical challenges of space travel and the medico-legal consequences of the Hillsborough disaster. His debut novel, The Silent House of Sleep, the first in the Dr Jack Cuthbert Mysteries Series, was self-published in 2023 and won the Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Novel Prize in 2024. Book 2, The Moon's More Feeble Fire, was published in early 2024. Book 3 in the series, To the Shades Descend, is to be published in the second half of 2025.

Ciaran Saward was born in Essex where he was lucky to live near a public library and have parents (and a cassette player) that read stories to him. After studies in Cornwall and Germany, he has narrated more than 100 audiobooks, with warm reviews in AudioFile magazine. Ciaran has performed in bestselling audio dramas, comedy podcasts, and AAA videogames. He has also volunteered with Talking Newspapers for the blind.