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Author · Storyteller
David Blake
@davidblake
Crime writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
David Blake writes across crime and mystery, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
The best ideas rarely arrive in their final form.
Books and story worlds
Stories by David Blake
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Last Catalogue
When a rare bookshop in Stirling is emptied after a suspicious fire, the surviving catalogue pages point to a missing first edition and a death everyone had written off as an accident. A local archivist with a habit of noticing what other people overlook starts tracing the gaps between inventories, receipts and witness statements. The deeper she looks, the more the case turns on who gets to control the story of a place, and who benefits when the record is incomplete.
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