The Hanging Ground Is Available Now
Robert A. Clark’s newest crime thriller is available now. Enter a Belfast investigation shaped by ritual murder, buried history, and a conspiracy determined to keep the past sealed.
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From the Writing Desk
Notes on writing, Glasgow, the stories taking shape, and the occasional interruption from Clyde.
Character as Compliance Officer
His protagonists are fluent in procedure because they enforced it. Their arc is realizing the rulebook was the accomplice. The climax is not a chase. It is a decision.
Reading the Manual as Motive
CDC response trees. Motorway design standards. Immigration casework software. Crypto thermal loads. Clark studies how harm is formatted, then writes the breach.
Building Tension From Red Tape
Tension lives in the unanswered email. In the meeting deferred. In the line item that never clears. Clark layers dread through delay, then lets the system snap.