- Sunday 27th April, 11:15-12:30pm
- Paisley Town Hall
- Tickets – Pay What You Can, £3/£5/£8/£10
Journey into the murky depths of murderous Scottish novels with women at their heart.
Murder ballads are an oral practise traditionally sung by working class women, and in Lucy Ribchester’s third novel, Murder Ballad, street ballad singer Isobel finds herself caught in a risky tangle of murder and deceit, despite rising through the ranks of 18th century Edinburgh society. Hear Lucy speak about the novel accompanied by a live murder ballad performance from Scottish folk singer Ailsa Dixon.
Natalie Jayne Clark, already an acclaimed performer in the Scottish poetry scene, secured a publishing deal for her debut novel, The Malt Whisky Murders, after pitching it at Bloody Scotland, Scotland’s crime writing festival. This darkly funny tale of two women whose ambition to run the first female-owned whisky distillery in Scotland on a remote peninsula is scuppered when a grisly, decades-old secret is revealed, in the whisky barrels themselves!
Helping us to navigate these grisly tales is author, Mairi Kidd, whose own novel, The Specimens, retells the infamous story of Burke and Hare through the eyes of two very different women.
