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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 19h

Prime Big Deal Days, and the cheapest thing in the trolley is a Glasgow murder. Twisting Fates is 99p / 99 cents until 21 October, with thirty other mystery, thriller and horror ebooks on this page. A dead professor, a man in Barlinnie who didn't do it. mybook.to/MysteryThril...

A figure in a long coat and hat walking away down a foggy cobbled street under a gas lamp. Text reads: Mystery, Thriller and Horror. 99 cents ebooks.

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Nancy Jardine @nansjar23.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Booklinker have a special Thriller Promotion ongoing during 4-21 October. You'll find Topax Eyes is included and it's only #99c/ #99p during this time. mybook.to/MTHPROMO_Oct26

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thirty-one mystery, thriller and horror ebooks go to 99p / 99 cents on 4 October, and Twisting Fates is one of them. Glasgow, slow-burn, DS Don Maciver. If you have been meaning to start the Specialist Crime Squad series, this is the cheap way in. mybook.to/MysteryThril...

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Last day. Twisting Fates is free on Kindle until midnight, then it goes back to costing a coffee. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RQZFWW #ScottishCrime

Promotional image for Twisting Fates: the book shown in 3D against a dark background, with the line "He broke every rule for his wife".

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Free-chart placings this morning: Canada: #1 Literary Fiction, #1 Psychological Fiction Australia: #2 Literary Fiction, #4 Police Procedurals US: #2 Psychological Fiction Free until tonight, so I'm keeping it in proportion. But mainly: O Canada. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RQZFWW

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

O Canada. Twisting Fates is #1 in Literary Fiction and #1 in Psychological Fiction on Amazon.ca this morning. It's the free chart, and the book is free until tonight, so I'm keeping the celebration to one cup of tea. Thank you, Canada. amazon.ca/dp/B0H4RQZFWW

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Edinburgh Libraries @edinburghlibraries.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Join our Macmillan @ Edinburgh Libraries Team for a Macmillan Coffee Morning (in the afternoon) this coming Friday 💚 🍰🍵 Find them in The Rose Garden at Saughton Park from 12 noon till 3pm on Friday 25 September and help raise funds to support people in the UK living with cancer.

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Robert Arnold did stem cell research properly for forty years. Ethics approval, records, the lot. Then Mary got ill, and the licensing would have taken longer than she had. So he started letting himself into the lab at night. Free on Kindle until tonight. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RQZFWW

Dark card with frost crystals on the left. Quotation: The dead you could grieve. Mary went on being lost. Every day. Always exactly out of reach. Twisting Fates, S. John Davies.

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Twisting Fates is free on Kindle until Sunday night. An open-and-shut Glasgow murder, and a squad being quietly steered toward the wrong man. If Bloody Scotland has you in the mood, it costs nothing to find out. #TartanNoir #ScottishCrime www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RQZFWW

Dark promotional card. Frost crystals on the left, a lit window on the right. Text: A Glasgow professor is growing stem cells at night, without a licence, for a wife who won't live long enough to get them any other way. Somebody kills him for it. Twisting Fates, S. John Davies.

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The victim in my crime novel is a stem cell professor. The part that took the most research was not the murder. It was the approvals he decides not to wait for, once his wife's illness has its own timetable. Free on Kindle until Sunday night. #stemcells www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RQZFWW

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Bloody Scotland @bloodyscotland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We are delighted to reveal the finalists for this year's McIlvanney Prize. The winner will be announced in The Church of the Holy Rude on Friday 18th September - well done all!

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bloody Scotland starts tomorrow. For anyone following it from home: which Scottish crime novel would you give someone who has never read one? Mine is free on Kindle from tomorrow until Sunday, if you fancy an outsider. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RQZFWW

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Things my crime novel's detectives learn about academia in week one: the swipe-card log never lies, the signing-in book always does, and nobody has ever known whose samples those are in the shared minus-80.

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Twisting Fates is now in UK library systems. If your library uses BorrowBox you can request it today - borrowing costs you nothing, and every request tells a library the book is worth stocking. Glasgow readers, it's set on your doorstep.

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Book 2 is up for pre-order. The Holding Game: Glasgow's most loved man is dead, nine days before the derby, and Scotland needs it not to mean what it looks like. Out 2 February. £2.99 now, delivered on the day. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HD1QH1GD

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wrote a murder mystery set in a university biology department and the hardest part was making the murder less plausible than the authorship disputes.

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

First reader review is in for Twisting Fates. Five stars, and a proper reading of the book: "Glasgow itself felt like a character in its own right." Thank you, Danny P. First novelists remember their first. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RQZFWW

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Bloody Scotland @bloodyscotland.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Can you believe that SIX WEEKS tomorrow we'll be kicking off Bloody Scotland 2026! Here's a wee reminder of last year's highlights to get you in the mood! bloodyscotland.com/whats-on/

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you've finished your last Rankin and need something for the gap - 'Tolerance' is a free Glasgow short story, set in the same Specialist Crime Squad division as Twisting Fates. No strings, no spam, just the story. sjohndavies.co.uk #TartanNoir #CrimeFiction

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Twisting Fates - A Glasgow Crime Thriller

Out now. A professor murdered in a locked laboratory. An innocent man framed. A reasonable voice steering the case away from the truth.

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Part of writing this book was learning how a university laboratory freezer locks, and who holds the keys. Nobody in the building asked why I wanted to know. #amwriting #CrimeFiction

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Glasgow will give you three kinds of weather before lunch, and a witness who saw nothing in any of them.

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Crime readers - what makes you put a police procedural down for good? For me it's a detective who turns out to be right about everything. #BookSky #CrimeFiction

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Tartan noir gets called bleak. It isn't. It's a genre that assumes the reader is an adult who can be told the truth about a place and still love it. #TartanNoir #CrimeFiction

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

IT'S HERE! Twisting Fates is out today. A professor found dead in a locked Glasgow laboratory. A frightened man who fits the crime a little too neatly. And a quiet, reasonable hand steering the case away from the truth. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RQZFWW

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Bloody Scotland @bloodyscotland.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We know you're always on the lookout for your next new author to read, so we're very pleased to introduce this year's Crime in the Spotlight, new and emerging writers who will be appearing before our Albert Halls sessions in September - more details here: bloodyscotland.com/crime-in-the...

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Why the title? Biologists learned years ago how to change the fate of the body's cells - a skin cell can be turned into something else entirely. As DS Maciver finds out, a case, a verdict and a career can also be redirected. Or simply ended. Twisting Fates - out Saturday. mybook.to/twistingfates

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Twisting Fates is on Goodreads. If you're a want-to-read shelf person - it's ready to be shelved before launch day this Saturday. A laboratory freezer, a dead professor, an answer that won't sit right. goodreads.com/author/show/70956391.S_John_Davies #TartanNoir #CrimeFiction #Goodreads #Glasgow

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This time next week, Twisting Fates will be out in the world. A professor dead in his laboratory. A suspect who fits too neatly. A quiet, reasonable voice steering the case away from the truth. 1 August. £2.99 on Kindle, free on Kindle Unlimited. sjohndavies.co.uk #TartanNoir #CrimeFiction

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Two weeks today. A professor found dead in his laboratory. A suspect who fits a little too neatly. A detective who can't make the answer sit right. Twisting Fates - Glasgow crime fiction. 1 August. £2.99 on Kindle, free on Kindle Unlimited. sjohndavies.co.uk #TartanNoir #CrimeFiction #Glasgow

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Professor Robert Arnold was days away from a breakthrough in stem cell research. Someone couldn't let that happen. Twisting Fates · Out 1 August · sjohndavies.co.uk #TartanNoir #CrimeFiction #Glasgow

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Everyone in this investigation is behaving reasonably. That's the problem. Twisting Fates - out 1 August. Free on Kindle Unlimited. sjohndavies.co.uk #TartanNoir #CrimeFiction

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Bloody Scotland @bloodyscotland.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

@mayrinaldiauthor56.bsky.social went through Pitch Perfect way back in 2018 and this year finds her novel Liar Thief on both the Debut Prize short-list and McIlvanney Prize longlist. You can see her talk about that journey on Friday 18th September: bloodyscotland.com/event/debut-...

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Before Twisting Fates launches on 1 August - get a free Glasgow crime short story. 'Tolerance' is set in the same division as the novel - the Specialist Crime Squad. No strings, no spam, just the story. Sign up at sjohndavies.co.uk #TartanNoir #CrimeFiction #FreeBook

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Twisting Fates - A Glasgow Crime Thriller

A professor murdered in a locked laboratory. An innocent man framed. A reasonable voice steering the case away from the truth.

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A locked room. A dead professor. A detective who can't make the answer fit. Twisting Fates - Glasgow crime fiction. Out 1 August. sjohndavies.co.uk #TartanNoir #CrimeFiction #Glasgow

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Setting a crime novel in Glasgow means the city gets a speaking part, whether you planned it or not.

Quote card for the novel Twisting Fates by S. John Davies. Dark blue background with frost. Text reads: "Glasgow, early morning, the city not yet certain what kind of day it was going to be." Glasgow crime fiction, out 1 August, sjohndavies.co.uk

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This is technically a police procedural. The procedure is mostly men not admitting things.

Quote card for the novel Twisting Fates by S. John Davies. Dark blue background with frost. Text reads: "He had stopped believing it some time ago and gone on saying it anyway, the way you go on saying the prayer after the faith has gone, because the silence where it used to be is worse than the lie." Glasgow crime fiction, out 1 August, sjohndavies.co.uk

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Advance review copies of Twisting Fates are available now on Booksprout - free in exchange for an honest review on launch day, 1 August. Glasgow crime fiction. A locked-room murder. A detective who can't make the answer fit. booksprout.co/reviewer/rev... #TartanNoir #CrimeFiction #ARC

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A professor murdered in his own locked laboratory. A frightened man who fits the crime a little too neatly. And a quiet, reasonable hand steering the case away from the truth.On a wet Saturday night i...

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If you read Rankin for the weight of a city. McDermid for the cold procedural logic. Mina for the quiet damage underneath. Twisting Fates might be for you. Out 1 August. #ScottishCrime #TartanNoir

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S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Finally on Bluesky. Glasgow crime fiction writer. My debut novel Twisting Fates is out 1 August - a locked-room murder in a university lab, a detective who can't make the answer fit, and a quiet hand steering the case away from the truth. sjohndavies.co.uk

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Twisting Fates - A Glasgow Crime Thriller

A professor murdered in a locked laboratory. An innocent man framed. A reasonable voice steering the case away from the truth.

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