S. John Davies

@sjohndavies.bsky.social

Glasgow crime fiction. Twisting Fates - out now in ebook and paperback. For readers of Rankin, McDermid, Mina. Free short story: sjohndavies.co.uk

@aliciawarne.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 7:55 AMReposted by @sjohndavies.bsky.social

Looking for a new mystery, thriller or horror read? Here are 30 books, all at 99c. My "Death on the Loper" is here, along with books by @lizfielding.bsky.social, @kevharrison.bsky.social, @sjohndavies.bsky.social, @daisyjames.bsky.social and @nansjar23.bsky.social #booksky
mybook.to/MysteryThril...

Graphic for Booklinker Mystery, Thriller and Horror promotion. An image of a figure in a trenchcoat and trilby walking away from the viewer down an alleyway under a lamp, in noir film style, next to the words "Mystery, Thriller and Horror .99 cents ebooks"

@sjohndavies.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 8:34 AM

Prime Big Deal Days, and the cheapest thing in the trolley is a Glasgow murder. Twisting Fates is 99p / 99 cents until 21 October, with thirty other mystery, thriller and horror ebooks on this page. A dead professor, a man in Barlinnie who didn't do it. mybook.to/MysteryThril...

A figure in a long coat and hat walking away down a foggy cobbled street under a gas lamp. Text reads: Mystery, Thriller and Horror. 99 cents ebooks.

@nansjar23.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 4:27 PMReposted by @sjohndavies.bsky.social

Booklinker have a special Thriller Promotion ongoing during 4-21 October. You'll find Topax Eyes is included and it's only #99c/ #99p during this time.
mybook.to/MTHPROMO_Oct26

@lizfielding.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 12:19 PMReposted by @sjohndavies.bsky.social

Doing that again with the link! 31 Mystery, Thriller and Horror titles for #99c mybook.to/MysteryThril...

@sjohndavies.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 8:47 AM

Sharing the page with @kevharrison.bsky.social, @lizfielding.bsky.social, @aliciawarne.bsky.social, @daisyjames.bsky.social and @nansjar23.bsky.social, whose books are on it too.

@sjohndavies.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 8:36 AM

Thirty-one mystery, thriller and horror ebooks go to 99p / 99 cents on 4 October, and Twisting Fates is one of them. Glasgow, slow-burn, DS Don Maciver. If you have been meaning to start the Specialist Crime Squad series, this is the cheap way in.
mybook.to/MysteryThril...

@sjohndavies.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 4:09 PM

Last day. Twisting Fates is free on Kindle until midnight, then it goes back to costing a coffee.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RQZFWW #ScottishCrime

Promotional image for Twisting Fates: the book shown in 3D against a dark background, with the line "He broke every rule for his wife".

@sjohndavies.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 1:46 PM

Free-chart placings this morning:

Canada: #1 Literary Fiction, #1 Psychological Fiction
Australia: #2 Literary Fiction, #4 Police Procedurals
US: #2 Psychological Fiction

Free until tonight, so I'm keeping it in proportion. But mainly: O Canada.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RQZFWW

@sjohndavies.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 1:46 PM

O Canada.

Twisting Fates is #1 in Literary Fiction and #1 in Psychological Fiction on Amazon.ca this morning.

It's the free chart, and the book is free until tonight, so I'm keeping the celebration to one cup of tea.

Thank you, Canada.

amazon.ca/dp/B0H4RQZFWW

@edinburghlibraries.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 10:26 AMReposted by @sjohndavies.bsky.social

Join our Macmillan @ Edinburgh Libraries Team for a Macmillan Coffee Morning (in the afternoon) this coming Friday 💚 🍰🍵 Find them in The Rose Garden at Saughton Park from 12 noon till 3pm on Friday 25 September and help raise funds to support people in the UK living with cancer.

A promotional image for Macmillan Coffee Morning shows a table laden with cakes.

@sjohndavies.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 8:03 AM

Robert Arnold did stem cell research properly for forty years. Ethics approval, records, the lot. Then Mary got ill, and the licensing would have taken longer than she had. So he started letting himself into the lab at night.

Free on Kindle until tonight.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RQZFWW

Dark card with frost crystals on the left. Quotation: The dead you could grieve. Mary went on being lost. Every day. Always exactly out of reach. Twisting Fates, S. John Davies.

@sjohndavies.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 9:04 AM

Twisting Fates is free on Kindle until Sunday night.

An open-and-shut Glasgow murder, and a squad being quietly steered toward the wrong man.

If Bloody Scotland has you in the mood, it costs nothing to find out. #TartanNoir #ScottishCrime

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RQZFWW

Dark promotional card. Frost crystals on the left, a lit window on the right. Text: A Glasgow professor is growing stem cells at night, without a licence, for a wife who won't live long enough to get them any other way. Somebody kills him for it. Twisting Fates, S. John Davies.

@sjohndavies.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 8:46 PM

Congratulations to Frances Crawford, and to the whole shortlist. Judging that list can't have been a quick lunch.

@sjohndavies.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 3:03 PM

The victim in my crime novel is a stem cell professor. The part that took the most research was not the murder. It was the approvals he decides not to wait for, once his wife's illness has its own timetable.

Free on Kindle until Sunday night. #stemcells
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RQZFWW

@sjohndavies.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 10:29 AM

Following it from a distance this year. Have a good one.

@bloodyscotland.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 8:16 AMReposted by @sjohndavies.bsky.social

We are delighted to reveal the finalists for this year's McIlvanney Prize. The winner will be announced in The Church of the Holy Rude on Friday 18th September - well done all!

@crimebookgirl.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 7:00 AMReposted by @sjohndavies.bsky.social

It's nearly here! If you're wondering whether you should join us in Stirling, I've written a wee preview (OK, not that wee...) with some of the highlights of @bloodyscotland.bsky.social - come in person, watch online & celebrate crime fiction in all its guises! (@fionabrownlee.bsky.social)
#BookSky

@sjohndavies.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 10:18 AM

'Mesh' is the honest word there. A lot of this morning's coverage has gone with 'hybrid brain' instead, which is a good deal further than the work itself goes.

@sjohndavies.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 10:15 AM

What makes these clinics hard to shut is that the pitch is never 'this works'. It's 'the approved route is slower than your illness'. That is a hard sentence to argue with at a bedside, which is why the oversight has to sit upstream of it.

@sjohndavies.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 10:23 AM

Bloody Scotland starts tomorrow. For anyone following it from home: which Scottish crime novel would you give someone who has never read one?

Mine is free on Kindle from tomorrow until Sunday, if you fancy an outsider.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RQZFWW

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