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Box of books, out May 4th.

I’m at the Aye Write festival in Glasgow on Sunday evening, talking with Michael J. Malone and Louise Beech about thriller writing. Come along, folks!

Here’s a fun wee thing I recorded for the Royal Literary Fund about why I write. WARNING: Contains my voice.

New issue of Gutter Magazine is out. I have a story in there called ‘Moby Dickheads’. It is quite nasty.‬

Heading up to the debut year of Granite Noir in Aberdeen this weekend, cannae wait! Appearing on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning at The Lemon Tree. Check out the whole programme here. Loads of great crime writers. See yeh there!

Lookit, the paperbacks of Crash Land exist! With the radically new cover (not). Not out till May 4th, but they’ll have copies at festival and bookshop appearances before then.

So there’s been a ton of coverage for Crash Land since I last rounded stuff up. Here is all that guff in one place: A cracking Author in the Spotlight interview over at my local Portobello Book Blog. I talk … Continue reading →

Well, I was lucky enough recently to be invited to the Kolkata Literature Festival at the start of February to talk about Scottish crime fiction. Accompanying me on this amazing trip were fellow author Lin Anderson and agent Jenny Brown, our … Continue reading →

Here’s my last book column of 2016 for The Big Issue, reviewing Aliens edited by Jim Al-Khalili and Scandinavians by Robert Ferguson. Enjoy!