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Lin Anderson is the creator of the forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod series of crime thriller novels, and is co-founder of the Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival. Lin is a screenwriter, with a Celtic Film Festival best drama award for River Child. A movie based on her Dead Close story is going into production, and Lin is working with John Sinclair (former keyboard player for Ozzy Osbourne) on a rock musical. She divides her time between the Highlands, Edinburgh and the south of France.

Chris Brookmyre is the author of twenty crime and SF novels, including Quite Ugly One Morning, All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye and Black Widow, which won the 2016 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and was named the 2017 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. He is a regular visitor to Bothwell Castle, but they might not let him in again after they read this anthology.

Gordon Brown lives in Scotland but splits his time between the UK and Spain. In a former life Gordon delivered pizzas in Toronto, sold non alcoholic beer in the Middle East, launched a creativity training business and floated a high tech company on the London Stock Exchange. A co-founder of Bloody Scotland Scotlands International Crime Writing Festival Gordon is the author of five crime novels published in both the UK and the US.

Ann Cleeves is the author behind ITVs Vera and BBC Ones Shetland. She has written over thirty novels, and is the creator of detectives Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez characters loved both on screen and in print. She is a multi-million bestselling author and her books are sold worldwide in many languages. In 2006 Ann was awarded the Duncan Lawrie Dagger (CWA Gold Dagger) for Best Crime Novel, for Raven Black, the first book in her Shetland series. In 2012 she was inducted into the CWA Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame, and in 2017 awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger. Ann lives in North Tyneside.

Doug Johnstone is a writer, musician and journalist. His eighth novel, Crash Land, was published in 2016. His previous book, The Jump, was shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize Scottish Crime Book of the Year. Gone Again was an Amazon bestseller and Hit & Run was both an Amazon top seller and a winner of the prestigious Fiction Uncovered prize. Hes an arts journalist, Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow, musician, playermanager for the Scotland Writers Football Club, and has a PhD in nuclear physics.

Stuart MacBride is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Logan McRae and Ash Henderson novels. Hes also published a couple of standalones, a short story collection, two novellas, and a slightly twisted picture book for slightly twisted children. Stuart lives in the northeast of Scotland with his wife Fiona; cats Grendel, Gherkin, Onion, and Beetroot; some hens; horses; and a vast collection of assorted weeds. Dubbed the Queen of Crime, Val McDermids novels have been translated into 30 languages, selling over 15 million copies worldwide. Her books include three main series: Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan, and the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series, the first entry in which, The Mermaids Singing, won the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year. The Hill/Jordan series was adapted for the highly successful television drama, Wire in the Blood, starring Robson Green.

Denise Minas 1998 novel, Garnethill, won the Crime Writers Association John Creasy Dagger for best crime novel by a first-time author. She has now published twelve novels and also writes short stories, plays and graphic novels. In 2014 she was inducted into the Crime Writers Association Hall of Fame. Denise presents TV and radio programmes as well as appearing in the media. She regularly speaks at literary festivals, leads writing masterclasses and was a judge for the Baileys Prize for Womens Fiction in 2014.

Craig Robertson is the author of Random, Snapshot, Cold Grave, The Last Refuge, Witness to the Dead and Murderabilia. His debut novel, Random, was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger and was a Sunday Times bestseller. He started out as a journalist with a Scottish Sunday newspaper. During his 20-year career there he interviewed three Prime Ministers, covered major stories including 9/11, Dunblane, and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. He lives in Stirling.

Sara Sheridan is an Edinburgh-based novelist who writes two different kinds of historical novels. One is a series of cosy crime noir mysteries set in Brighton in the 1950s the Mirabelle Bevan series and the other is a set of novels based on the real-life stories of late Georgian and early Victorian explorers and adventurers The Secret Mandarin, Secret of the Sands and On Starlit Seas. In 2015 Sara was named one of the Saltire Societys 365 most influential Scottish women, past and present.

E S Thomson was born in Ormskirk, Lancashire. She has a PhD in the history of medicine and works as a university lecturer in Edinburgh. She was shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book Award and the Scottish Arts Council First Book Award. Her first novel in the historical Jem Flockhart series, Beloved Poison, was a finalist for the McIlvanney Prize Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2016. Elaine lives in Edinburgh with her two sons.

Louise Welshs first novel, The Cutting Room, won several awards, including the 2002 Crime Writers Association John Creasey Dagger, and was jointly awarded the 2002 Saltire Society First Book Award. Louise was granted a Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award in 2003, a Scotland on Sunday/Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award in 2004, and a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2005. In addition to her four subsequent highly acclaimed novels, she is a regular radio broadcaster, has published many short stories, written for the stage and has contributed articles and reviews to most of the British broadsheets.

BLOODY SCOTLAND

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Orkahaugr Lin Anderson | Ancient and Modern Val McDermid
Kissing the Shuttle ES Thomson | Painting the Forth Bridge Doug Johnstone
The Last Siege of Bothwell Castle Chris Brookmyre | Sanctuary Sara Sheridan
Stevensons Candle Stuart MacBride | History Lesson Gordon Brown
Come Friendly Bombs Louise Welsh | The Twa Corbies of Cardross Craig Robertson
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit Denise Mina | The Return Ann Cleeves

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