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The man behind the project, Littleferry resident and former Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Major General Patrick Marriott, is also writing the first historical documentation of the battle, using a large range of primary and secondary sources dating all the way back to the 1740s.
Maj Gen Marriott became curious about the history during last year’s lockdown when he was regularly cycling past the area where the battle was thought to have taken place. After considerable research – and what he describes as a “soldier s eye” – he now envisions how events may more likely have played out.
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New murder mystery is set in north Highlands By Caroline McMorran Published: 11:00, 06 March 2021
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Lockdown has given a former bookseller and lover of literature the opportunity to become a published author in in his own right.
Jonathan Creed of Golspie used the enforced spare time to write his first novel, A Sutherland Murder, a crime thriller set in the county as well as Oxford where he spent his later childhood.
Jonathan Creed.
The novel, which took 10 weeks to write, features a couple Bill and Jane, who get caught up in the investigation of a suspicious death while staying at an East Sutherland hotel.