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Malcolm Mackay

Malcolm Mackay
Malcolm Mackay was born and grew up in Stornoway where he still lives. His much-lauded Glasgow-set novels have won the Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read Award and the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award and have been shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award for Best Crime Debut of the Year and the Scottish First Book of the Year Award. His most recent novel, THE NIGHT THE RICH MEN BURNED, was published on May 3.


How to Write Fully-Formed Characters in Fiction

"As with place, we need know only just enough of people."
May 25, 2016  By Malcolm Mackay
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