![]() ![]() Kellen knows that it's neither but is she willing to rake up the past to prove it? Dragged into a world of rogue doctors, bent genetic engineers and killers who gut their victims as a warning, Kellen must face her own past as much as the very real terrors of the present to stop the killing – or she'll be next. A debut crime thriller in which a woman appeals for help after finding her lover dead, and along with her pathologist friend and a genetic scientist with an. ![]() Thenthe phone rings and Bridget is dead – the only lover who ever counted.The local doctor says it's a heart attack, the police think it's suicide. Glasgow therapist Dr Kellen Stewart has put the past behind her: medical career, relationship, life on the farm in the country. She began her literary career as a crime writer - her debut, Hens. Her debut novel, Hen’s Teeth, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Add a corpse packed with Temazepam, a genetic engineer with an unstable past and a killer on the loose with a knife and you have all the reason you need to walk away and never come back. Born and educated in Scotland, she now lives in Suffolk with two lurchers and too many cats. Particularly if the body in question is your ex-lover and the woman grieving at her bedside used to be your friend. Her work has been translated into over twenty languages. Her crime novels have been shortlisted for many awards including Hens Teeth for the Orange Prize and No Good Deed for an Edgar Award. ![]() Midnight in Glasgow is not the best time to be faced with a dead body. Manda Scott Over the past two decades Manda Scott has brought iconic historical figures back to life, reimagined and re-booted for the twenty-first century. ![]()
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