Allan Gaw
Author
Allan Gaw studied medicine at Glasgow University and trained as a pathologist. Having worked in the NHS and universities in the UK and the US, he took early retirement and now devotes his time to writing. His published non-fiction works include medical textbooks and magazine articles on topics as diverse as the thalidomide story, the medical challenges of space travel and the medico-legal consequences of the Hillsborough disaster.
Allan Gaw studied medicine at Glasgow University and trained as a pathologist. Having worked in the NHS and universities in the UK and the US, he took early retirement and now devotes his time to writing. His published non-fiction works include medical textbooks and magazine articles on topics as diverse as the thalidomide story, the medical challenges of space travel and the medico-legal consequences of the Hillsborough disaster.
Books
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Jan 2027£9.99
A mother’s love, a mother’s wrath . . . A night at the theatre for Dr Jack Cuthbert proves to be the beginning of a baffling backstage murder investigation. There is no doubt who the victim is – a star of the most prestigious West End stages...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£9.99
The scales of justice are easily tipped . . . London, 1932. A brutal murder, a complex forensic investigation and a safe conviction – or so everyone thinks until D.C.I Mowbray hears the condemned man’s last words. Now he needs Dr Jack...
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Paperback | Pub: 08 Jan 2026£9.99
Sins never stay buried. You may call it a sin; I say it was an act of desperation. Like all pathologists, Cuthbert finds dealing with dead children the hardest part of his job. However, when the body of a young boy is found in the grounds of a...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Jun 2025£9.99
The dead all have stories to tell. Glasgow, 1931. Visiting from London, Dr Jack Cuthbert unexpectedly finds himself at the centre of a horrifying crime. As an experienced pathologist, the local police call upon him to lead the forensic investigation...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Apr 2025£9.99
She was someone’s daughter . . . In 1930, the killing of a Soho prostitute is hardly a priority for Scotland Yard. But when a second, similar murder comes to light, and then a third, everything changes. Cuthbert and his team find themselves in a...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jan 2025£9.99
Winner of the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize Death is a lonely business . . . No one who meets Dr Jack Cuthbert forgets him. Tall, urbane, brilliant but damaged, this Scottish pathologist who works with Scotland Yard is the best the new DCI has seen....




