The Death Game: A Kirsty Campbell Novel

The Death Game: A Kirsty Campbell Novel

A historical mystery novel with gothic undertones and an original female Scottish detective.
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REALLY enjoyed this book. The heroine is a fascinating character with a truly original backstory - former suffragette/ one of the first female police officers. The book zips along nicely and satisfies on every level. It could be argued that this is an important book - detailing a huge step in the woman's movement - and the author very cleverly allows this to inform the character without giving the reader a lecture. Quality from start to finish!
Michael Malone
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Synopsis

A historical mystery and detective novel in the tartan noir vein, with gothic undertones and a new and original female Scottish detective.

This Scottish crime thriller is set in 1919, when Britain is recovering from the horrors of the Great War.

Kirsty Campbell, former suffragette and a policewoman in Britain's newly formed Women's Police Service, returns to her home town of Dundee to become the city's first policewoman. Her struggle for acceptance in the all-male police force is not easy, and she fights for recognition. But Kirsty is not easily intimidated and, despite police attempts to curtail her activities, she defies her superior officer to pursue an investigation into a murder which is linked to missing orphan girls.

Kirsty is an unusual character with a fascinating history and background. She has demons of her own to fight, as well as becoming involved in a deadly game of sacrifice and death? But how will she cope when the sins of the past come back to haunt her?

Chris Longmuir is an award-winning novelist. Her previous crime novels have won the Pitlochry Award, and the Dundee International Book Prize.

Release date: February 26, 2014

Publisher: Barker & Jansen

Print pages: 298

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Behind the book

The original idea for this book and my Kirsty Campbell character came about through my research into women police for an article. My interest increased when I discovered that Dundee employed a policewoman in 1919 at a time when there were only two policewomen in the whole of Scotland. In this respect, they were behind England because the first women's police service was set up in London at the start of the First World War in 1914.

Prior to publication The Death Game was one of twenty winners in a world wide competition for the best unpublished crime novel.

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