Pondlife
Pondlife Software Ltd is a small, fully remote UK company that makes a video editing app nobody quite understands, run by management that mostly communicates by voice memo from somewhere in the Atlantic. Four novels of standups, outages and unhandled exceptions, told from the inside by the engineers and the QA team who actually keep it running.
The Wardstane Chronicles
A five-book epic fantasy hidden inside the real history of the Scottish Wars of Independence: every recorded event happens exactly as the chronicles say it did, and everything they could not see, the dead who will not rest, the order sworn to keep them, and the boy who can hear them, is where the real story runs. From a beggar boy in Ettrick Forest in 1296 to the field at Bannockburn.
The Gangrel Boy
The Harrowed Field
The Elfin Mile
The Mirk Years
The Last Hosting
The DI Cormac Buchan Investigations
Six inverted mysteries, Columbo-style: you know, or all but know, the killer from the first page, and the pleasure is watching him get caught. Set in the villages, harbours and braes of North-East Scotland, with Detective Inspector Cormac Buchan, who never raises his voice, drives a Volvo the colour of cold tea, grows prize leeks, and wins every time by being underestimated.
Under the Haar
Slack Water
The Judging Ring
Beneath the Moss
The Quiet Trade
The Leading Light
DI Buchan: The Early Years
A six-book prequel to the DI Cormac Buchan Investigations, following young Detective Sergeant Buchan through his apprenticeship under Detective Inspector Jean Sangster in the Turriff CID office of Grampian Police, 2004 to 2011, one doctrine and one case at a time, ending exactly where the original series' memory of 'Buchan's first case' begins.
The Girnal
The Teller
The Watermark
The Angels' Share
The Long Service
The Wanting Years
The Aberdeenshire Postman
A single, ongoing story of a year on the longest rural post round in Aberdeenshire, and the man who only meant to keep the job for a fortnight.
The Longest Post Round
Coming soon
Every Door
The Legacy Unit
When Police Scotland was assembled in 2013 out of eight legacy forces, their records did not become one thing: they stayed eight things in one building, in eight filing systems, in three warehouses. The Legacy Unit follows the small team whose job is to put the same question to all of it at once, and the cases that only make sense once thirty-year-old paper from two different forces is finally read on the same day.
Coming soon
The Second Source
Try Resetting the Router
A comic novel in two books, based on a true story: one man, a farmhouse in Aberdeenshire, a small red light on a box in the porch, and the long, patient, entirely courteous collapse of customer service at a very large telephone company. No event in it should be assumed to be true. The physics is real.
Standalone Novels
Novels by Raymond Stone that share no world or characters with the series above: comic, dark, historical and science-fictional, but always the same dry, warm, unmistakably Scottish voice.
