Mark Billingham and Chris Brookmyre, Friday 9th September, 8:30pmĬrime Writers Football Match: Scotland v England, Saturday 10th September, 2pmĬhris Brookmyre and Stuart Neville, Saturday 10th September, 5:30pm She has the power to control it but prefers to watch us suffer.Ĭhris will be at Bloody Scotland 2016 at the following events: It’s a redundant measure as none of them ever recovers the power of speech. Workmen have to sign an NDA before they’re allowed into her basement. She pursued a path to high office to ensure she had the power to suppress the truth about Ayrshire’s hellmouth.Īll that vinyl he buys is actually for melting down and coating his victims, House of Wax style. Only bloodlines riven with true evil emerge from Dreghorn. Nobody is telling me that woman doesn’t have a head in her fridge and a blood- spattered altar where she makes horrific sacrifices to a grotesque effigy of Paul Sturrock. There is also more information available in the press release.Ĭhris Brookmyre believes he has sussed the five Scots whose dark secrets will shape the future crime bestsellers. His brother, Hugh McIlvanney OBE, will present the award on Friday 9th September to the winner and all four finalists will be presented with a full set of Laidlaw novels. The winner of the Scottish Crime Book of the Year will be awarded The McIlvanney Prize in memory of William McIlvanney at the opening ceremony of Bloody Scotland. Thomson – an ambitious and original novel, full of vivid historical detail about Victorian medicine, and a richly gothic atmosphere, with a large cast of wonderfully named characters, including the strong lead character. The reader is drawn into a family drama, suicide, murder - and a plot whose outcome remains nail-bitingly unresolved until the final pages.īeloved Poison by E. The Jump by Doug Johnstone – a taut psychological thriller with a powerful and absorbing narrative which makes this work a compelling read. Easily accessible, even to those readers who have not been introduced to earlier books in the series. Splinter the Silence by Val McDermid – set in a totally believable world of internet trolling, this novel features established characters but moves their relationship into a new place, suffused with longing. With a theme of cyber-abuse, this shows an author taking a long running series to new heights. Judges Lee Randall, Stewart Bain & Magnus Linklater said of the finalists:īlack Widow by Chris Brookmyre – this novel is like watching Olympic diving – just when you think the plot can’t twist again, it takes a new turn. We’re excited to reveal the four finalists of the McIlvanney Prize 2016.

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