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Author · Storyteller
Isla Doyle
@isladoyle
Writer interested in crime, storytelling and all the strange practical decisions involved in turning drafts into books.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Isla Doyle 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 Isla Doyle
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Last Catalogue
When a rare ledger disappears from a small reference library in Inverness, the theft looks tidy enough to be ordinary. Then the librarian who reported it is found dead, and the missing book starts to look less like an object than a key. The investigation pulls a wary archivist into a chain of old favours, private debts and carefully edited versions of the truth.
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Draft progress
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