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PUBLISHER: Into Books
ISBN: 9781738514984
RRP: £11.99
PAGES: 303
PUBLICATION DATE:
February 19, 2026
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Original Sins
By Linda Duncan McLaughlin
When a troubled woman discovers her birth father was a serial killer, she’s forced to confront a terrible question. What if the darkness in her own soul is a direct inheritance from him?
Despite having made a promise never to do so, Joanne Marshall sets out to trace her birth parents when her adoptive mother dies. She’s always felt unable to connect with other people, even her family, and her lack of history is a black hole that only the truth can fill.
Her search unearths increasingly shattering information, however, and when she discovers her birth father was imprisoned for murder – and that he’s still alive – she decides she has to contact him to lay her fears about her own nature to rest.
But she finds, instead, a strange connection to him. And, as their relationship deepens, she doesn’t realise that she’s making herself vulnerable to a potentially still very dangerous man. Will she finds the strength to stop another tragedy taking place?
Linda Duncan McLaughlin
Linda is a screenwriter, playwright and fiction writer. She writes for BBC Scotland’s flagship drama River City and was nominated for a TV Foundation’s New Voices Award for that work. Her award-winning play Descent toured in 2017, and the original unfinished manuscript for Original Sins was nominated for the CWA’s Debut Dagger Award and the Grindstone International Novel Prize.