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Gavin Bell
Contact: [email protected]
Local authority: Glasgow City
Languages: English
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I write thrillers under my own name, and was previously published as Mason Cross. My latest novel is 138 Main Street, published by Simon & Schuster in the UK and US.
My first novel The Killing Season was published by Orion in 2014 and was longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. The sequel, The Samaritan, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club, and was followed by The Time to Kill (published as Winterlong in the US), Don't Look For Me, and Presumed Dead, which was longlisted for the 2018 McIlvanney Prize. What She Saw Last Night is a standalone mystery set on the Caledonian Sleeper and in London and the Scottish Highlands. I also published two standlone novels as Alex Knight: Hunted and Darkness Falls.
I have appeared at several literary festivals including the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Bloody Scotland, Bute Noir, Chiltern Kills, Noireland, the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival, CrimeFest, Aye Write, North Lanarkshire Encounters, Tidelines Book Festival and Dunoon Book Festival. I was recently a guest tutor at the Crime & Publishment writing festival. I write a biweekly Substack newsletter, The Basic 500, which covers writing a book from lightbulb moment to book launch.
I have delivered talks and writing workshops to bookshops, libraries and schools in Glasgow, North and South Lanarkshire, West Dunbartonshire, Stirlingshire, Clackmannanshire, Ayrshire and Orkney.