Debut Prize Panel - Frances Crawford, Kirsty Lockwood, May Rinaldi, Zoë Rankin, Linda Duncan McLaughlin

Meet the finalists for the 2026 Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut of the Year as they’re interviewed by festival co-founder Alex Gray.
Fear and rumour rip through Possilpark in A Bad, Bad Place by Frances Crawford. Everyone saw the murder happen in Kirsty Lockwood’s We Know What You Did. There’s a self-confessed serial killer with no evidence against her in May Rinaldi’s Liar Thief. A cabin deep in the woods holds the secrets to murder in The Vanishing Place by Zoë Rankin. A serial killer’s daughter confronts him and her own demons in Linda Duncan McLaughlin’s Original Sins.