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Author · Storyteller
Isla Bell
@islabell
Crime writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Isla Bell is a crime writer interested in how stories work, how readers respond to them and how technology is changing the way writers create and publish.
The smallest detail can change the temperature of a scene.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Isla Bell
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Quiet Room Above the Bookshop
When a rare-book shop in Cork closes for a week after a sudden death in the flat above it, the owner’s daughter starts noticing small inconsistencies in the stock, the receipts, and the stories people tell about the dead man. What begins as a local mystery turns into a quiet search through old debts, private grudges and the way ordinary places keep their secrets. The book follows the slow work of piecing together what happened when no one wants the truth made public.
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Draft progress
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