Rod Gillies lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland. The son of a naval engineer, he was a "steampunk" before he knew there was such a thing. Rod published his first novel "Red Mercury" in 2012. Pleasantly surprised by its reception, he produced two follow-ups "Neptune Rising" and "Titan's Fire". The stories were revised and collected as "The Empire of Steam Trilogy". More recently, he released a Puzzle Novel - a conspiracy thriller where the plot unfolds through the reader solving puzzles, cracking codes, and following clues online. "Extraordinary Investigations: The Morgan File" is the first in a planned series of these puzzle adventures. In the real world, Rod works in marketing and innovation for a whisky company, which he claims is the best job in the world. Away from work, he's generally either writing or building with LEGO bricks. He has built original models for many of Dorling Kindersley's LEGO books and he was invited by LEGO to display his creations in the Masterpiece Gallery at LEGO House in Denmark.