Keith Dumble - Murder Ballads

Murder Ballads

It's the last performance of her career -- and this time there will be no encore...

Murder Ballads is my psychological crime novel.

Jess Mitchell is taking her alter ego Lady Jezebelle out on the road one last time at the Edinburgh Festival before putting her past behind her forever.

But when she learns that not only is Edinburgh being stalked by a serial killer but that the murders seem to be re-enacting the stories in her songs, she realises not everyone may be as keen for her to quit as she is...


Murder Ballads is a recognition that much of my fiction is drawn to the dark side. I hadn't really considered crime as a genre before, but since my prize-winning writing has been praised for its "sinister unease", I thought I'd plot out something dark and see where it led.

And it seems to have led to a place where my writing style feels very much at home. Further inspired by hearing a recent discussion at the Edinburgh Book Festival about Scottish "horror and weirdness", I have now completed the first draft of Murder Ballads and will be revising it early next year.





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