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Laura McCluskey’s debut, The Wolf Tree, heralded the arrival of a promising new crime writer, with two Glaswegian detectives, DIs Georgina Lennox and Richie Stewart, plucked from their familiar urban surroundings and set down on the Hebridean island of Eadar to investigate an apparent suicide. The Cursed Road doesn’t just build on the events of the previous novel but surpasses it
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