I've known MM for a few years, as he and I both attended the Ayr Writers Club back in the day. So when he had a book launch in Waterstones Ayr, I naturally had to go to get a signed copy of his latest book.
   The Murmurs is an interesting concept: a girl is cursed with the ability to see when people are going to die. This is not a spoiler, as it's on all the blurbs and so forth. How this curse fits in with certain happenings around where she lives is the meat of the story... bit of a murder mystery... and I'm going to say no more about that.
   The book reads well, and the way the 'curse' meets the real world is well done. It's a book worth reading. When I asked MM if the curse could, in fact, be usefully employed in various medical settings, I got a mumbled reply that this might be explored in a subsequent novel. I'm waiting! 
   But this slightly illogical omission apart, I enjoyed the book and can recommend it.