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Author · Storyteller
David Bell
@davidbell
Crime writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
David Bell writes mainly in crime and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
A finished page should still feel alive.
Books and story worlds
Stories by David Bell
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Last Borrower
When a rare local-history collection begins disappearing from a Galway library, cataloguer Niamh Keane notices that the missing books all point to one unsolved death from years earlier. As she starts tracing the pattern through lending records, marginal notes and quiet lies, she finds that someone has been using the library to hide a much older crime. The deeper she looks, the more it becomes clear that the final book was never meant to be returned.
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Draft progress
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