Lin Anderson is a Scottish author and screenwriter known for her bestselling crime series featuring forensic scientist Dr Rhona MacLeod. The High Island is the first novel in her new series featuring DI Erling Flett. Four of her novels have been longlisted for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year and she was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Dagger in the Library Award in 2022. Lin is the co-founder of the international crime-writing festival Bloody Scotland, which takes place annually in Stirling.