Debut Prize Panel (online): Frances Crawford, Kirsty Lockwood, May Rinaldi,

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.

Tickets £6.75 incl bf