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Gavin Bell

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Born

in Glasgow, The United Kingdom

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Genre

Thriller, Crime, Mystery

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Stephen King, James Ellroy, Gillian Flynn, Shirley Jackson, Tom Wolfe, ...more

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April 2012

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Gavin Bell is the author of 138 Main, published in 2026 by Simon & Schuster.

Under the pseudonym of Mason Cross, Gavin wrote the Carter Blake series of thrillers published by Orion. The first, The Killing Season, was published in 2014 and was longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. It was followed by four further novels in the series, including the Richard and Judy Book Club selection, The Samaritan. He has also written standalone thrillers as Alex Knight, including Hunted and Darkness Falls.

He lives in Glasgow with his wife and three children.

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138 Main Street - UK publication day

138 Main Street is published in the UK today, and available from all good bookshops.

This is the first novel I’ve published since 2021, and I’m pretty happy with it. The Scotsman has just reviewed it, where Rachel Mackie said:

“The plot is original and engaging, and it moves quickly and furiously with an Agatha Christie-worthy body count and an explosion rate that would make Michael Bay proud.”

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