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Ruth Dugdall

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Ruth Dugdall is a crime novelist and Royal Literary Fellow. She holds a Doctorate in Creative Writing and her specialism is the role if probation and rehabilitation in crime narratives.
Ruth was a probation officer, and has worked in prison with offenders guilty of serious crimes, including stalking, rape and murder.
The Woman Before Me won the CWA Debut Dagger & the Luke Bitmead Bursary.



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My Sister and Other Liars

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The Woman Before Me

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Humber Boy B (Cate Austin, #3)

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The Sacrificial Man (Cate A...

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The Things You Didn't See

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Nowhere Girl (Cate Austin, #4)

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The James Version

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Mother Missing: Don’t miss ...

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The Ruth Dugdall Collection

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Mad Dogs and English Women

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“...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.”
― Ruth Dugdall, The Sacrificial Man

“...human beings have a distorted view of risk. They don't see the whole picture. Our perceptions are twisted by stories in the media, by films, by our own personalities and experiences. So, despite the unlikely odds, we still worry about being raped or murdered. We hear a sound in the night and think of burglars, not mice... It's kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it may miss our door.”
― Ruth Dugdall, The Sacrificial Man

“Say something often enough, people think it’s true. But what happens if it’s a lie and people just go on believing it?”
― Ruth Dugdall, My Sister and Other Liars

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“No matter how much the therapists over the eighteen months have told me that talking will help, I don’t believe them.”
― Ruth Dugdall, My Sister and Other Liars

“gazing abstractly out on the Ipswich skyline, listening to the beep of the machine. We watched nurses press buttons, shine a torch into Jena’s eyes and clip her finger with a gadget to measure her pulse. Minutes ticked by with no change.”
― Ruth Dugdall, My Sister and Other Liars

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message 4: by Ruth

Ruth Dugdall Hi Rai,

Me too! Looking forward to checking out books I wouldn't normally have thought about reading.

Ruth
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message 3: by Rai

Rai Thanks for your friendship, Ruth! I enjoy meeting my fellow scribes :)

Cheers,

Rai


message 2: by Ruth

Ruth Dugdall My pleasure, Tamara!

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Tamara Rose Blodgett Hi Ruth, thanks for the add~! :D Tamara


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