A VILLAGE TORN APART BY AN EVENT FROM THE PAST IS NOW GOING TO FIND ITSELF THE BATTLE GROUND FOR AN ALMIGHTY CLASH. THE GIBBS FAMILY LIVE IN STALE MATE, TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE LOSS OF LARA AND THEY’RE STILL REELING. ENTER CHRIS BURNS, THE MAN THEY BLAME FOR LARA’S DEATH, BUT A MAN HELLBENT ON REVENGE FOR A DEVASTATING LOSS OF HIS OWN. SCORES ARE ABOUT TO BE SETTLED, WHILST THE DISCOVERY OF A DEAD BODY WILL BRING TO LIGHT THE LIES AND SECRETS THE PEOPLE OF THIS VILLAGE HAVE BEEN HIDING.
Billy McLaughlin is a 38 year old writer from Glasgow who has published four novels in the crime genre.
The first is Invisible, a novelette about a woman who hides the true nature of her private life from a colleague that she's befriended. However, he delves in further under the belief that he can help her with horrible consequences.
The second of his books, and the first in the DI Morris series, tells the story of a young woman who has lost her way and ends up on the streets. As her life continues to break under the rubble, she finds herself at the heart of a murder where she's the obvious suspect.
In the Wake of Death picks up six months after the events of Lost Girl where DI Morris is caught up in a mystery of a more personal nature. When Marc Adams, the brother of an old flame, is left for dead it is up to Morris to get to the bottom of the crime. However, something darker lies beneath the surface.
In March 2017 McLaughlin released The Dead of Winter, a 40k crime novella that tells the story of two missing children, one a baby and one the teenager next door. The ugly truth of a middle class community on the edge of Glasgow reveals how these people react to the crime and how they'll protect their own at any cost.
McLaughlin is working on the third DI Morris book The Daughter which will see a 2017 release.