Original Sins
Linda Duncan McLaughlin author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Into Creative
Published:19th Feb '26
Should be back in stock very soon
When a troubled woman discovers her birth father was a serial killer, she's forced to confront a terrible question. What if the darkness in her own soul is a direct inheritance from him?
Despite having made a promise never to do so, Joanne Marshall sets out to trace her birth parents when her adoptive mother dies. She's always felt unable to connect with other people, even her family, and her lack of history is a black hole that only the truth can fill.
Her search unearths increasingly shattering information, however, and when she discovers her birth father was imprisoned for murder - and that he's still alive - she decides she has to contact him to lay her fears about her own nature to rest.
But she finds, instead, a strange connection to him. And, as their relationship deepens, she doesn't realise that she's making herself vulnerable to a potentially still very dangerous man. Will she finds the strength to stop another tragedy taking place?
"A cracking psychological thriller of family feuds and shameful secrets, with characters that haunt you long beyond the final chapter. A tremendous debut."
Jenny Lecoat
New York Times bestselling author
"Extraordinary that this is a first novel - the sure-footedness of the storytelling, the finesse of the writing, the conviction. But also the ambition and bravery to tell this particular story. Everything literary crime (if that's what it is - it goes beyond pigeonholing) should be: Human, honest, compelling, real. With her first book McLaughlin shows she is a writer to her fingertips."
Chris Dolan
Award-winning Author, Poet and Playwright
"In Linda Duncan McLaughlin's gripping thriller, family secrets are darker - and deadlier! - than anyone could imagine. Prepare to be haunted long after the last page."
Lizzie Fry
Author, The Coven
"What really impresses is the plot and pacing. This is a genuine thriller, unsettling at times, which builds to a breathless climax. Original Sins announces a notable new voice to Scottish writing."
Alistair Braidwood
Cultural commentator and Honorary Fellow of the Association of Scottish Literature
ISBN: 9781738514984
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