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When reading a brief news article a few years ago, local author Denise Forsythe learned about a rare occurrence in the ...

Fed up with faceless women being killed and mutilated ... the Staunch Prize has come in for criticism from established writers. Best-selling Scottish crime novelist Val McDermid commented ...

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