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Russel D McLean


Scotland

Russel D McLean is the author of The Good Son, his debut crime novel, available in winter '08/'09 and published by Five Leaves Publications. His short stories have been published in a variety of markets including Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and the 2007 anthology Expletive Deleted, where 'Pedro Paul' was singled out by Publisher's Weekly as "awesomely dark". He has previously run the highly regarded noir fiction ezine Crime Scene Scotland, and still reviews crime novels both in print and online. He lives in Dundee.
 


Genres: Mystery
 
New and upcoming books
March 2025

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The Friday Girl
 
Series
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   1. The Good Son (2008)
   2. The Lost Sister (2009)
   3. Father Confessor (2012)
   4. Mothers of the Disappeared (2014)
   5. Cry Uncle (2014)
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Novels
   And When I Die (2016)
   Ed's Dead (2017)
   The Friday Girl (2025)
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Collections
   Terminal Damage (2010) (with others)
   Collateral Damage (2011) (with others)
   The Death of Ronnie Sweets (2011)
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Books containing stories by Russel D McLean
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Killing Malmon (2017)
30 Authors...1 Victim
edited by
Dan Malmon and Kate Malmon
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Crimespree Magazine #53 (2013)
(Crimespree Magazine)
edited by
Jon Jordan and Ruth Jordan

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Award nominations
2010 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (nominee) : The Good Son


Russel D McLean recommends
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By Force Alone (2020)
(Anti-Matter of Britain Quartet, book 1)
Lavie Tidhar
"Utterly bonkers, utterly brilliant – a brutal, witty and slightly insane deconstruction of the Arthurian legend by way of Goodfellas, this is absolute bloody (and sweary) joy on the page."
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Clearing The Dark (2019)
(Dania Gorska, book 2)
Hania Allen
"Pitch-perfect . . . a witty, tense crime novel written in a highly readable style."
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Bloody January (2017)
(Harry McCoy, book 1)
Alan Parks
"A barnstormer of a crime novel that takes the police procedural and gives it a well-deserved shake. Detective Harry McCoy digs under the surface of 70s Glasgow in all its contradictory glory. Bloody January is relentlessly readable and so well written I couldn't believe it was a debut."

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