When they met, it was Murder.
Monday 10 November 2025, 7:30pm. Currie Rugby Club, Malleny Park, Balerno, EH14 7AF
Alexandra Sokoloff and Craig Robertson are a dynamic literary couple who split their time between Los Angeles and Scotland. Prolific authors individually, they are now writing together for the first time.
Alexandra Sokoloff is an award-winning American novelist and screenwriter. She is the author of 16 books, including the Huntress Moon thriller series (in development for TV) and the Screenwriting Tricks for Authors workbooks. Before she turned to novels, Alex sold original scripts and wrote novel adaptations for major Hollywood studios. The Huntress series has been praised for flipping traditional thriller tropes.
As a 20-year journalist, Craig Robertson covered some of the biggest stories across the globe. He has been longlisted and shortlisted for the main UK crime fiction prizes on nine occasions. His seven-book Glasgow series is being adapted for film by Sky, and his standalone The Unexpected Deaths of Grace McGill has been optioned for TV. He co-directs the Bloody Scotland festival and is festival director of Bute Noir.
They are collaborating on a new thriller series: Lost Highway, out June 2026 in the US —and are miraculously still married.
Pentlands Book Festival: 6 Nov - 3 Dec 2025 