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Author · Storyteller
David Campbell
@davidcampbell
Crime writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
David Campbell writes mainly in crime and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
A book is made from hundreds of decisions nobody sees.
Books and story worlds
Stories by David Campbell
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Last Copy
When a rare book disappears from a Durham library archive, the theft looks tidy enough to be routine. Then a cataloguer is found dead, and the missing volume starts to look less like a collector's prize and more like a key to something someone was willing to kill for.
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Draft progress
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