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Crime festival & compo: Bloody Scotland

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If you’re 18 you’re old enough to drink whiskey here in the UK, and you also qualify to enter the Glengoyne Short Story Writing Competition which is being run in conjunction with a new crime fiction festival called Bloody Scotland. It will be Scotland’s first…
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Death of a Kingfisher

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Written by MC Beaton — Having penned over 100 books in a career spanning more than 30 years, Scottish writer MC Beaton is probably best known for her Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth novels. Her latest book, Death of a Kingfisher, takes us back to…
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Hit and Run

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Written by Doug Johnstone — Doug Johnstone’s previous novel Smokeheads was one hell of a read, a breakneck tear-up of a book following four blokes on a whiskey tour of Islay which descends into sex, drugs and extreme violence. Peat black and shot through with…
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Shatter the Bones

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Stuart MacBride’s story here centres on the kidnapping of Alison Gregory and her six-year-old daughter Jenny. They are singing sensations from the reality TV show Britain’s Next Big Star. Logan McRae investigates but runs into problems when no evidence of any kind is available, other…
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Shatter The Bones

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Written by Stuart MacBride – With the seventh book in the Logan McRae series, Stuart MacBride delivers another unrelenting, incredibly bleak read, whilst also being spell-bindingly brilliant! The story centres on the kidnapping of singing sensations from the reality TV show Britain’s Next Big Star,…
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Sleep Like the Dead

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Written by Alex Gray  — A professional hitman guns down and murders a seemingly innocent person on their doorstep. DCI Lorimer is tasked with discovering the reason for this seemingly random attack. Meanwhile, a professional killer is stalking the streets of Glasgow, looking to be…
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