Doonira Quaig

Doctor Doonira Quaig is now an academic reasearcher in the Department of Preternatural Sciences at the long-established university once attended by Findo Gask.

Once, long ago, she and Findo Gask were lovers. When the relationship ended, Gask transferred to a police training course, while Doonira remained a student at the old university.

One of the cast of characters from the Findo Gask series of hard-boiled fantasy detective novels by Trevor Hopkins.

The series currently comprises nine books, all in various stages of completion:

• Findo Gask - Goblin Detective: a revised and updated draft is available for download or to read online.
• Findo Gask - Backstreet Magics: four chapters are now ready for review.
• Findo Gask - Underworld Investigations: a work in progress.
• Findo Gask - Graveyard Flatfoot: just a placeholder at present.
• Findo Gask - Gumshoe Glamours: a complete first draft is available for download or to read online.
• Findo Gask - Dragon Sleuth: eight chapters are now ready for review.
• Findo Gask - Moonlight Shamus: just a placeholder at present.
• Findo Gask - Deadly Enchantment: a draft of ten chapters is now available for review.
• Findo Gask - Sherlock Eclipse: just a placeholder at present.

Most of the characters in the novels are based on place names in the Perth and Kinross region of Scotland, many of them close to the tiny village of Findo Gask.

Dunira is an estate of about 860 acres in Perthshire, Scotland, about three miles north-west of the town of Comrie. The estate is set against a backdrop of mountains, hills and rich lush lowland. Dunira was once the home of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.

Quoig is a settlement in Perthshire, Scotland.