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BLOODY SCOTLAND REVEALS THE PROLOGUE

Bloody Scotland 12 – 14 September, 2025

American superstar of crime fiction Kathy Reichs will be the first of a series of Early Releases as Bloody Scotland teases its headline acts for 2025.

The author of the Temperance Brennan novels will be making her first visit to the Stirling festival since 2013. She is a multi-million international bestseller, and the Brennan novels were the inspiration for the TV series Bones.

Tickets for Kathy’s event 13 September, 2025  Bloody Scotland Website  – in which she will be in conversation with 2025 guest programmer Sir Ian Rankin – will go on sale at noon on Monday 26 May.

sir ian rankin

A string of further Early Releases – all major names in the crime fiction world – will soon follow so keep your eye on our social media channels.

See Bloody Scotland Website to spot other early highlights as they drop or follow Bloody Scotland on Facebook, Instagram, X or Blue Sky

The Bloody Scotland 2025 programme

Will feature many other HUGE names in the world of crime fiction – it will be launched at noon at The Golden Lion, 8-10 King St, Stirling FK8 1BD on Thursday 12 June, 2025.

Linwood Barclay in conversation with Nicola Meighan

Also at The Golden Lion, 8-10 King St, Stirling FK8 1BD on Thursday 12 June, 2025 at 1 p.m.

Special standalone event with Linwood Barclay, who’ll be helping launch the 2025 Bloody Scotland programme. Linwood will be in conversation with Nicola Meighan about his sinister suspense novel, Whistle.

Evil has a one track mind…

Celebrated children’s author and illustrator Annie Blunt has had a dreadful year. Her husband was killed in a tragic accident, then one of her children’s books ignited a major scandal. Desperate for a fresh start, she moves with her young son Charlie to a charming small town in upstate New York where they can begin to heal.

But Annie’s year is about to get worse.

Bored and lonely in their isolated new surroundings, Charlie is thrilled when he finds a forgotten train set in a locked shed in the grounds of their new house. While Annie is pleased to see Charlie happy, there’s something unsettling about his new toy. Strange sounds wake Annie in the night – she’s sure she can hear a train in the middle of the night, although there isn’t an active line for miles. And then bizarre things start happening in the neighbourhood. But even stranger, Annie can’t seem to stop drawing a disturbing new character that has no place in a children’s book…

Grief plays tricks on the mind, but Annie is beginning to think she’s walked out of one nightmare straight into another, only this one is far more terrifying…

June followed by an event at 1pm with Canadian crime writing superstar, Linwood Barclay. Tickets on sale at www.bloodyscotland.com

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