A free spirit. Also crime writer & co-founder of the @BloodyScotland crime writing festival. Bsky: LinAnderson Insta: LinAndersonWriter Thrds: LinAndersonWriter

Edinburgh, Carrbridge, Cannes
Joined August 2009
Lin Anderson's new Orkney-based crime series kicks off with absolute banger! I was gripped from the very first page. Destined to become a firm favourite in the glittering firmament of Scottish crime — Alison Belsham mybook.to/TheHighIsland #TheHighIsland #LinAnderson
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'Lin Anderson is one of Scotland's national treasures.' - Stuart MacBride viewBook.at/Driftnet #CSI #Thriller #Mystery #CrimeFiction #BloodyScotland #KindleUnlimited #linanderson
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★★★★★ Review DRIFTNET - 'This is a thrilling, captivating and utterly unputdownable tale which held me from the first page to the last. Read it - you won’t be disappointed' viewBook.at/Driftnet #LinAnderson #Driftnet #Thriller #BloodyScotland
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★★★★★THE DEAD AND THE DYING - 'Lin Anderson is a fantastic author and every one of her Rhona MacLeod books is so interesting, so tense, and so informative - it is difficult to put the books down.' mybook.to/DeadandDying #Thriller #LinAnderson #TheDeadAndTheDying
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★★★★★ DRIFTNET - 'The story that unfolds is mesmerising and you are drawn completely onto Rhona's life. The first series of books that I can truly say for a long time that I couldn't put down.' viewBook.at/Driftnet #BestSeller #LinAnderson #BloodyScotland #Thriller
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'I absolutely loved The Party House - it really is a page turner of the highest quality!' viewBook.at/ThePartyHouse #CrimeFiction #Thriller #Highlands #ThePartyHouse #PartyHouseBook #LinAnderson
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Would you recognise your own son? - How a crime fiction series began with DRIFTNET ow.ly/9DHW306T6tr #AmWriting #CrimeFiction #BloodyScotland #CSI #Mystery #Thriller #LinAnderson #KU
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★★★★★ Review DRIFTNET - 'This is a thrilling, captivating and utterly unputdownable tale which held me from the first page to the last. Read it - you won’t be disappointed' viewBook.at/Driftnet #LinAnderson #Driftnet #Thriller #BloodyScotland #CSI
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★★★★★ THE REBORN - 'Lin Anderson has balanced the criminal stuff and the relationship stuff like a master of both' viewBook.at/TheReborn #Mystery #Thriller #LinAnderson #IARTG #CSI #BloodyScotland #BookBoost #KU
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Start here with book #1: tinyurl.com/bdhb55d7
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THESE ISLES: Medieval Scottish warrior Sir William Wallace has been celebrated by 19th century historians as a national hero, debunked by others as a self-serving outlaw and immortalised by Mel Gibson in the film Braveheart. 1/6
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A biologist looks deeper into biology and finds chemistry. A chemist looks deeper into chemistry and finds physics. A physicist looks deeper into physics and finds mathematics. A mathematician looks deeper into mathematics and finds logic. A logician looks deeper into logic and finds philosophy. A philosopher looks deeper into philosophy and starts questioning everything.
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“ A society that mocks virtue prepares its own collapse.” — Plato
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Here is George Clooney’s response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite." "Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years. So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable. People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble? He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people! When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction. He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!" - George Clooney actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist
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This week's Friday pub is the Queen's Park Cafe on Victoria Rd. There has been a pub on this site since 1870. It was run by John A McArthur until the mid-1870s, and his wife Margaret took control of the business after his death until 1885. It was then sold to Alexander Sutherland
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The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society's plan to restore Glasgow's lost Mackintosh building has been published. Full details on our mackblog duille.com/gsa
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FOLLOW THE DEAD (Shortlisted for Scottish Crime Book of the Year) 'The scenes in the Highlands are vividly written and the attention to detail is remarkable. This is a gripping read and highly recommended' viewBook.at/Follow #CrimeFiction #Thriller #LinAnderson #CSI
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🔥 This audience member on #bbcqt absolutely nails it. "We don't run a country based on opinion polls", but on elections. The Tories haven't won in Scotland since 1955, and pro-independence parties won an overwhelming mandate for #indyref2. That's basic democracy.
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Old MAGA white lady says I should “go back to my own country” if I don’t like Donald Trump’s America. So, I parked my buffalo in her driveway, set up my teepee on her front yard and said “I’m home, what’s for dinner?”
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National Museums Scotland announced it had acquired a rare, 8thC, gold sword pommel #OTD in 2022. A detectorist found it at Blair Drummond, Stirling, in 2019. Encrusted with garnets, it has eyes and a beak on each end. 📸National Museums Scotland
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