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Author · Storyteller
Simon Lane
@simonlane
Independent writer working mainly in mystery, with an interest in craft, books and the practical side of publishing.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Simon Lane is a mystery writer interested in how stories work, how readers respond to them and how technology is changing the way writers create and publish.
The best ideas rarely arrive in their final form.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Simon Lane
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First draft
The Last Proof
In a small Hampshire market town, a retired proofreader who notices every typo and loose detail becomes convinced that a local publisher’s quiet death was not accidental. As she starts comparing notes, margins and metadata, she finds that the real story is hiding in plain sight, inside the books everyone has been handling for years. The investigation draws her into the town’s bookshop circle, where old rivalries and careful manners conceal a surprisingly sharp-edged truth.
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