Aye Write! Femmes Fatales

Mitchell Library
Glasgow
3.30pm
£10

An afternoon of the best in women’s crime. Sophie Hannah, novelist, author of Hurting Distance and Little Face; Alex Gray, whose latest book is The Riverman; Lin Anderson, author of the Rhona Macleod mysteries;
Catriona McPherson (Bury her Deep and After The Armistice Ball) and Aline Templeton, whose Marjory Fleming appears in The Darkness and the Deep and Lying Dead.

An afternoon for readers to hear favourite authors talk about their work, what inspires them, who they like to read, and to provide invaluable tips on writing and getting published.

The afternoon concludes with the launch of The Twilight Time, the first book from new Glasgow writer, and former police officer, Karen Campbell.

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    After The Armistice Ball - Paperback - Catriona McPherson
    Dandy Gilver is bored to a whimper in the spring of 1922 and a little light snooping seems like harmless fun. Before long though, the puzzle of what really happened to the Duffy diamonds after the Armistice Ball has been swept aside by a sudden, unexpected death in a lonely seaside cottage in Galloway.
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    Bury Her Deep - Paperback - Catriona McPherson
    'Bury Her Deep' is set in Scotland shortly after the Great War and features Dandy Gilver, an upper-class amateur sleuth. The first Dandy Gilver book, 'After the Armistice Ball', was nominated for the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger of 2005.
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    The Darkness And The Deep - Paperback - Aline Templeton
    The wreck of the Knockhaven lifeboat with the loss of all three of its crew is a hard blow for the small Scottish town. But it's harder still when DS Tam MacNee discovers that it isn't simply a tragic accident.
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    Lying Dead - Paperback - Aline Templeton
    DI Marjory Fleming thrives on the adrenalin and tension that come with heading a major crime investigation. With the discovery of not one, but two murdered corpses on her patch, she's about to feel the pressure like never before.
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    The Riverman - Paperback - Alex Gray
    When the dead body of a man is fished out of Glasgow's River Clyde the morning after an office celebration, it looks like a case of accidental death. An anonymous telephone call and a forensic toxicology test, however, give DCI Lorimer reason to think otherwise.
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    The Twilight Time - Hardback - Karen Campbell
    Anna Cameron is a new Sergeant in the Flexi Unit. On her first day she discovers she'll be working with her ex, now married with a child. In at the deep end emotionally after many years without him, she's also plunged headlong into the underworld of Glasgow's notorious Drag - the haunt of working girls, drug dealers and sad, seedy men.

Saturday 8th March 2008

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