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Chance to WIN copies of The Wolf Tree by Laura McCluskey for your book club!

We’re offering 10 book clubs, copies of The Wolf Tree by Laura McCluskey. To participate, please email [email protected] with the quantity you require and any details about social media handles you use. We are particularly interested in hearing from reading groups based in Scotland, given the setting of the book, so do flag if that is you!

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On an Island full of secrets
The truth lies in the dark

A gripping and atmospheric debut crime thriller set on an isolated Scottish island…

On a small island off the coast of Scotland, an isolated community is grieving. Eighteen-year-old Alan Ferguson was found at the foot of the lighthouse – an apparent suicide.

DIs Georgina Lennox and Richard Stewart are sent to investigate. But a raging storm keeps them trapped on the island for four days. And the locals don’t take kindly to mainlanders.

As George and Ritchie question the island’s inhabitants, they discover a village filled with superstition and shrouded in secrets.

But someone wants those secrets to stay buried. At any cost.

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“The Wolf Tree is a stunning debut: a wild, vivid landscape and a propulsive mystery you simply have to know the answer to. It will have you on the edge of your seat, desperate to know what the small Scottish community is hiding” – Leah Pitt

“Atmospheric and immersive, The Wolf Tree’s isolated and storm-battered Hebridean setting is vividly evoked.” – M. K. Murphy

“Absorbing, unsettling, and deeply accomplished” – Dervla McTiernan

“The Wolf Tree is an exquisitely executed tale.” – Louisa Luna

“Laura McCluskey’s thrilling debut blends detective novel and folk horror to terrific effect.” – Jennifer Thorne

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