Mairi Chong
Mairi grew up in the north-east of Scotland. The dramatic coastal village proved to be the perfect back-drop for imaginative play alongside her brothers.‘The neighbours must have hated us. We were always up on someone’s shed roof tracking down smugglers, or digging in a ditch, hoping to unearth hidden treasure!’Mairi read voraciously from a young age. She gravitated towards crime fiction, beginning with Agatha Christie, and moving on to Dorothy L. Sayers and Josephine Tey.‘I must have been a...