“a dark and very well-crafted mini thriller, with a finely-drawn detective protagonist who must seek to understand the disturbed mind of her main suspect in order to solve the crime.” – RACHEL SEIFFERT, author, on “Burials” 

“a hugely impressive piece of work. Rarely will you read a piece of flash fiction that gets so much into such a short space.” – CLIO GRAY, author, on “Man Walks Into a Bar”

“a tour de force of accumulated impressions and heightened perceptions that convey the way death changes everything and nothing … a poignant short story that immerses its reader in well-conveyed impressions of a particular time and place.” – WRITING MAGAZINE on “Whisky Night”

The fiction in Burials and Other Stories is rooted in Scotland and, in particular, Perthshire, detailing its physical beauty, its history, its people. Ranging from 1832 to the present day, these twenty intertwined stories offer a study of community and kinship, the need to belong and the pain of disconnection. Burials and Other Stories is, at turns, uproariously funny and devastatingly moving, revealing the complexities of lives spent negotiating with the ghosts of the past, the present and the future.

Suffused with the keen sense of place and historical accuracy for which Rob McInroy’s novels are highly-regarded, Burials and Other Stories is a powerful collection of literary short stories.

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