Aye Write! Allan Guthrie, Quintin Jardine & Stuart MacBride

Mitchell Library
Glasgow
12noon
Free, booking required

In a special session for adult learners, crime writer Allan Guthrie talks about his book Kill Clock, one of a new series for adult learners published by Barrington Stoke. Pearce‘s ex needs to pay back twenty grand by midnight – or she‘s dead. Unless Pearce can stop the kill clock... A fast and furious underworld thriller by a master of Scottish noir.

Mitchell Library
Glasgow
1pm
£7/£6

Three of Scotland‘s hardest and most popular crime writers spend 90 minutes on their work. Quintin Jardine is author of two much-acclaimed and best–selling series of detective novels: The Bob Skinner novels and the Oz Blackstone mystery series – reads from and discusses Death‘s Door and For the Death of Me. He is joined by Stuart MacBride, author of Dying Light and Broken Skin and Allan Guthrie author of four novels, including Two-Way Split, which won the 2007 Theakston‘s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year), and his latest, Savage Night.

  • Cover scan of Broken Skin
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    Broken Skin - Paperback - Stuart MacBride
    As February's leaden skies cast a grey pall over the granite streets of Aberdeen, DS Logan McRae is assigned a particularly unsavoury dead-end case - an unidentified body dumped outside a hospital by an unidentified motorist, showing signs of brutal S&M activity.
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    Death's Door - Paperback - Quintin Jardine
    When two young female artists are murdered in what looks like ritualistic killings, the pressure is on to find a highly professional murderer. What is the link with the art world? Is the killer a disgruntled art critic? It's not long before Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner gets called back to the frontline.
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    Dying Light - Paperback - Stuart MacBride
    It's summertime in the Granite city: the sun is shining, the sky is blue, & people are dying. It starts with a prostitute, stripped naked & beaten to death down by the docks. Despite DS Logan MacRae's best efforts, it's not long before another body turns up on the slab.
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    For The Death Of Me - Paperback - Quintin Jardine
    Oz Blackstone, crime investigator turned international film star, is back but the demons of the past begin to creep up on Oz's sunny life. Blackmail and murder are lurking in the shadows and when organised crime muscles in on the picture, Oz is getting close to losing a lot more than his wealth and reputation.
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    Kill Clock - Paperback - Allan Guthrie
    Pearce's ex-girlfriend is back and she needs 20 grand before midnight. Or she's dead. She doesn't have the money and nor does Pearce, and time is running out fast.
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    Savage Night - Paperback - Allan Guthrie
    How much blood would you spill to avenge those you love? Andy Park passes out at the sight of blood, but he thinks he's discovered a way to make his family's enemies pay. He isn't prepared for the fall-out, though. This is a tragi-comedy of love and violence set in Scotland's capital city.

Saturday 15th March 2008

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