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2 months ago | booksfromscotland.com | R. Mclean |White Publishing |Vikki Reilly

‘Dow’s good people. One of the few. The uncle you wish you had. He served in the war, but discusses it fleetingly. Did his duty, but would rather forget he ever had to.’1978, Dundee, Scotland. Newly assigned to CID, Elizabeth Burnet is seen as just a pretty face. So when she stumbles across evidence of a serial killer, dubbed ‘the Werewolf’, her theories are dismissed. This does not stop her investigating her hunches . . . In this extract we are introduced to Elizabeth and her complacent colleagues.

May 12, 2023 | booksfromscotland.com | Alex Howard |White Publishing |Vikki Reilly

‘Why if a cat has nine lives, reserved for misadventure and poor luck, I dare say I am still on my first . . .’Tik Tok sensation and author Alex Howard has turned his attention from The Library Cat to The Ghost Cat in his latest novel. Over the course of a century in his nine lives in one Edinburgh tenement the ghost cat oversees two world wars, a coronation and one giant step for mankind. In the extract below, we are introduced to Grimalkin at the end of his first life.