Author Description

Product Description Take note literary crime fans: an exceptional new writer has just broken the genre wide open. With the debut ofThe Cutting Room, Louise Welsh confidently landed on the British bestseller lists and then proceeded to collect several prizes, including The Saltire Society First Book Award, a BBC Underground 2003 Award and was declared one of the Best First Novelist of 2002, byThe Guardian.The Cutting Room became a sellout stage production at Glasgow's famous Citizens' Theatre, has sold into seventeen languages and has been optioned for film.Set in contemporary Glasgow, The Cutting Room is narrated by Rilke, an auctioneer by profession, and the most eccentric, sardonic, hedonistic and completely flawed character to seep from fiction in recent years. When Rilke comes across a hidden collection of violent and highly disturbing old photographs, he is driven to unearth the secrets of their recently deceased owner. What follows is a compulsive journey of discovery, decadence and deviousness, steered by Rilke's dark, insatiable curiosity. About the Author LOUISE WELSH’s internationally bestselling debut novel, The Cutting Room, won the British Crime Writers’ Association Creasey Dagger for the best first crime novel, among many other prizes. Her second novel, Tamburlaine Must Die, also received critical acclaim for its daring treatment of the last days of Christopher Marlowe. Louise Welsh lives in Glasgow.