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Southsiders by Nigel Bird

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Ray Spalding lives in a violent marriage. His wife Paula has anger management issues. One day it becomes too much and Ray leaves Paula, his home in Southside, Edinburgh, and his 12-year-old son Jesse. He heads to Belfast to start over, using his brother Cliff’s…
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NTN: Nigel Bird interviewed

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Nigel Bird is an original voice in crime who’s found a home at Blasted Heath, Scotland’s first digital-only publisher. We’ve already profiled Blasted Heath for New Talent November 2014 – and Nigel is the author of their latest eBook, Southsiders, the story of a 12-year-old…
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NTN: The Waiting Game by Sheila Bugler

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After an impressive debut last year with Hunting Shadows, Sheila Bugler returns with The Waiting Game. It’s her second London-based police procedural featuring DI Ellen Kelly. The first book focused on the abduction of a young woman, which proved a tricky and dangerous case for…
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The Suicide by Mark SaFranko

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Transgender people don’t usually get an easy ride in crime fiction. Sometimes they are the psychopaths, as in Silence of the Lambs, and in other cases they are quirky bit-part players who end up dead. That’s not to say there aren’t crime fiction novels with fully-realised transgender…
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Shit Happens by Eileen Wharton

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Rose Starling lives a dreadful life. Physically abused by her ex-husband, Joe, she’s raising their three kids on benefits and is barely able to make ends meet, skirting from one problem to the next. But things turn from bad to worse when bits of Joe…
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Not All Stars Sparkle

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Written by Carys Jones — Chicago lawyer Aiden Connolly, exhausted and fearing that his marriage and sanity are at risk from his lifestyle, sells up and moves south to the town of Avalon. He has been appointed partner to Edmond Copes. His new life seems…
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