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Screams in the Dark: a gripping crime thriller with a shocking twist from the author of Blood Feud (Rosie Gilmour) Kindle Edition

by Anna Smith (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 2,258 ratings

A gritty, page-turning thriller perfect for fans of Martina Cole.

Refugees are disappearing in Glasgow. The mutilated body of one has been found, but the police aren't interested. Can crime reporter Rosie Gilmour uncover the truth before the killer comes for her?

Steeped in its own problems, Glasgow's mushrooming underclass is simmering with resentment and the sudden flow of Kosovan refugess into the city; and one by one, refugees are disappearing. The authorities assume the refugees have vanished into the black economy, until the mutilated body of an Albanian man is fished out of the River Clyde.

Asylum seekers and refugees with no roots and no families are easy pickings. But why is there no urgency from the authorities to find out what's happening? Rosie Gilmour's instincts tell her there's more to this story, but after six weeks on the frontlines in Kosovo, is her sympathy for the refugees clouding her judgement?

'Gripping and compelling' KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS

'An action packed novel with current political undertones that make for a riveting read' EUROCRIME

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  3. Language
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  6. Publication date
    31 Jan. 2013
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A cracking good thriller which covered very topical events (Eurocrime)

Satisfyingly complex but easily followed, with constant action and interesting characters (Promoting Crime Fiction)

An action packed novel with current political undertones that make for a riveting read (Crimesquad)

Very gripping and wonderfully hard hitting (Goodreads)

About the Author

Anna Smith has been a journalist for over twenty years and is a former chief reporter for the Daily Record in Glasgow. She has covered wars across the world as well as major investigations and news stories from Dunblane to Kosovo to 9/11. Anna spends her time between Lanarkshire and Dingle in the west of Ireland, as well as in Spain to escape the British weather.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00ANJW36W
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quercus
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 31 Jan. 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.7 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 340 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1780871196
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Book 3 of 9 ‏ : ‎ Rosie Gilmour
  • Customer reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 2,258 ratings

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Anna Smith

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ANNA SMITH is an award winning journalist, formerly chief reporter of the Daily Record in Scotland, and sometimes newspaper columnist, with a bit of travel writing thrown in.

She divides her time between her homes in Scotland and the West of Ireland and Spain.

Her style of writing as a frontline journalist, covering wars and major stories across the world as well as major investigations in the UK and Northern Ireland, won her many awards, and she has transferred that gritty, colourful way of writing to fiction, bringing alive the characters in her novels.

The DEAD WON'T SLEEP is the first in a thriller series featuring journalist Rosie Gilmour. TO TELL THE TRUTH is the second in the series, and the third, SCREAMS IN THE DARK, was published in January, and will be in mass market paperback in November.

The fourth novel will be published in February 2014, and Anna is currently working on book five.

Check out her website on www.annasmithscotland.com.

Follow Anna Smith Crime Novelist page on Facebook, and also on Twitter.

THE very talented DAVID CRUICKSHANKS filmed this short video for ....THE DEAD WON'T SLEEP. Plenty of atmosphere and shots of Glasgow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZe90Hz1zN4

(see on the video section on this page)

'I'VE been travelling Spain for the past few months, and writing travel pieces for The Sun. You can have a look at them here.

COSTA DEL SOL

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/travel/4875559/COSTA-DEL-LOL-WRITER-HAS-LAUGH-ON-SPANISH-TOUR.html

VALENCIA

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/travel/4898291/Anna-Smith-parties-in-Valencia.html

CUENCA

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/4967661/Costa-Del-Lol-Part-4-Gorge-yourself-on-clifftop-city.html

MADRID

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/travel/4916126/Costa-del-lol-Part-3-The-Real-Madrid.html

SEVILLE

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/5036988/Bullfighting-really-does-take-balls.html

....More to follow!

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Customers find this crime thriller to be a fantastic read with a thought-provoking plot and well-developed characters. The book receives positive feedback for its writing style, with one customer noting how it helps bring characters to life.

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129 customers mention ‘Readability’129 positive0 negative

Customers find the book thoroughly exciting and fantastic from beginning to end, with one customer noting it's a total page turner.

"As usual, Anna kept the pace rattling along. Tight prose and good to read, although I do think Rosie is actually a cat as she needs all her 9 lives..." Read more

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"...Another great read by Anna Smith this is the 3rd of the Rosie Gilmour books and she never disappoints as you become more and more invested in the..." Read more

"I enjoyed the book, but found it slow paced at times. The unusual storyline was good and included sufficient detail...." Read more

79 customers mention ‘Story quality’79 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the thought-provoking plot of the book, describing it as a gripping and exciting thriller.

"...Seriously, it was a very good thriller and tied in the Balkans connection with her (Rosie's) visits there...." Read more

"I enjoyed the book, but found it slow paced at times. The unusual storyline was good and included sufficient detail...." Read more

"...The plot is exciting and the author adds realsim to the plot and characetrs, The only character i don't like is her boyfriend, who seems to bring no..." Read more

"Another great story from Anna Smith...." Read more

38 customers mention ‘Writing quality’35 positive3 negative

Customers praise the writing quality of the book, finding it well-crafted and easy to read, with one customer noting how it brings characters to life.

"As usual, Anna kept the pace rattling along. Tight prose and good to read, although I do think Rosie is actually a cat as she needs all her 9 lives..." Read more

"...The unusual storyline was good and included sufficient detail...." Read more

"This book makes a really good holiday read. It is well written, holds your interest and has believable characters...." Read more

"...The action through this book was constant, and you are really kept on your toes wondering what is going to happen next...." Read more

22 customers mention ‘Character development’22 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the character development in the book, with one mentioning that Rosie is a great character.

"...books and she never disappoints as you become more and more invested in the main character and find you're following her life as much as you're..." Read more

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"...makes these books really special is the way Anna has made her characters so real life like they could be your friend, your neighbour or friends and..." Read more

"...Rosie Gilmour is a complex character that you take into your heart - tough but with a good heart, wanting to triumph over the evil that she finds..." Read more

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  • Billie Driscoll
    5.0 out of 5 stars absolutely thrilling
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2025
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    Absolutely keeps you on the edge of your seat… must read…. The book series is so thrilling 😊 highly recommend
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  • Photodom
    4.0 out of 5 stars Pacy Thriller with Emotional Stops Along the Way
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 October 2016
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    As usual, Anna kept the pace rattling along. Tight prose and good to read, although I do think Rosie is actually a cat as she needs all her 9 lives to survive the situations she gets herself into. I think she needs to get her self on a Tae Kwan Do course and stop relying on Adrian to get her out of scrapes. Seriously, it was a very good thriller and tied in the Balkans connection with her (Rosie's) visits there. I don't know if this is how journalists actually go about getting a story, but if it is then they're not paid enough. I won't spoil the end for anyone who hasn't read it, but it came as a bit of a surprise. Need to get the next one now, as I have a signed hard copy of the latest one burning a hole in my bookcase which I don't want to read until I've been through the rest.
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  • susan jeffrey
    5.0 out of 5 stars Always good .
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 March 2025
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    Good read
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  • Angela McM
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another Excellent Storyline by Anna Smith
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 November 2017
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    Screams In The Dark (Rosie Gilmour book 3) by Anna Smith

    Another great read by Anna Smith this is the 3rd of the Rosie Gilmour books and she never disappoints as you become more and more invested in the main character and find you're following her life as much as you're following the stories that she is investigating it's especially interesting if you live in or know Glasgow as you recognise the areas she writes about and it makes it even easier to immerse yourself in the story.

    When journalist Rosie Gilmour attends a highly charged protest at the red road flats in Glasgow she inadvertently runs into a young man named Emir a Kosovan refugee who is visibly upset, this chance meeting sets in motion an investigation into refugees who are disappearing, without anyone in an official capacity noticing and the information she gets leads to suspicions that they are not only missing but are being kidnapped, murdered and their body parts sold into the illegal tissue trade, this information leads Rosie into another dangerous investigation that takes her to many different European countries in search of the answers.
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  • K
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 December 2024
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    Couldn’t put the book down
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  • Kindle Customer
    3.0 out of 5 stars Good journalistic story!!!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 February 2014
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    I enjoyed the book, but found it slow paced at times. The unusual storyline was good and included sufficient detail. I would recommend the book to anyone looking for a safe story without too much gory detail.
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Another great read from Anna Smith
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 May 2014
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    This book makes a really good holiday read. It is well written, holds your interest and has believable characters. The plot is exciting and the author adds realsim to the plot and characetrs, The only character i don't like is her boyfriend, who seems to bring no real meaning or substance to the book.
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  • lynsey
    5.0 out of 5 stars The New Denise Mina
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 February 2014
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    Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour has learned to be tough. The places she’s been and the cases she’s covered, she’s had to be. Glasgow used to be called the city with the big heart. No longer. Refugees have been flooding in from Eastern Europe and the city’s underclass is simmering. Rosie, just back from reporting in Kosovo, understands the newcomers’ plight. When the mutilated body of a man wearing a Bosnian tattoo is fished from the River Clyde, Rosie gets drawn into the case. She knows her sympathy may be clouding her judgement. Yet her instincts tell her there’s much more to this story than the police will admit, and it’s down to her to dig out the shocking truth.

    How can the Rosie Gilmour series of books get any better I can safely say I am now hooked on these books. What makes these books really special is the way Anna has made her characters so real life like they could be your friend, your neighbour or friends and that’s how I like my fictional characters to bed. What I also love about these books is that not only are the characters so real like but the Glasgow that is portrayed is exactly like the Glasgow that we all know and love, it feels like you are actually in the book and living, seeing and breathing what Rosie and all the characters are. Part of this could be down to the fact that the author Anna Smith worked as journalist before she became a full time writer and is able to add a bit of her own real life experiences to her books.

    The only problem I had with this and her other novels is that they are so dam well addictive, another one of these books that once you start reading it is so hard to put it down and you find yourself still reading well in to the wee hours of the next morning to finish it. So it is just left for me to say go out this Friday to your nearest bookstore and get your hands on the paperback version of this book, you won’t be disappointed.
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  • patsyjb
    5.0 out of 5 stars Screams in the dark Anna Smith Rose Gilmour series
    Reviewed in Spain on 10 December 2015
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    well yes I have this books and like th series very much imn fact i did order another book a little different but i had to down load this as i could not resist another read by this author thanks will continue in the series
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    Screams in the dark Anna Smith Rose Gilmour series

    Reviewed in Spain on 10 December 2015
    well yes I have this books and like th series very much imn fact i did order another book a little different but i had to down load this as i could not resist another read by this author thanks will continue in the series
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  • Mark Ray
    5.0 out of 5 stars Screams in the Dark
    Reviewed in the United States on 25 April 2014
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    as this story begins.a cleaning lady enters an office only find the occupier hanging from the ceiling.
    At the same time a human torso is recovered from the River Clyde and some distance away a bound man is dragged from a refrigerated truck and shot.
    Rosie has spent time covering the slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and is all too familiar with the traumas arising among refugees. As the other incidents develop she is attending a tenants' demonstration against immigrants at an impoverished Glasgow housing complex and watches as they are verbally and physically abused.
    Any connections ? Bet your life and Rosie starts joining the dots eventually uncovering a ghastly scheme involving immigrants facing horrors even worse than those forcing them to flee their own countries. Is a certain Pharmaceutical Company as respectable as it seems to be ? What is going on in restricted area in the complex ?
    We join Rosie as she travels to Sarajevo trying to track down a notorious war criminal involved in the Bosnian massacres
    as well as connections to the Glasgow mysteries.
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  • Patricia Ann Quadra
    1.0 out of 5 stars Yellowed pages
    Reviewed in India on 7 October 2020
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    The book was a used one .....disappointing!
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    Reviewed in India on 7 October 2020
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Most readable
    Reviewed in the United States on 17 October 2013
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    A reasonably well constructed fictional plot. Moves along well and holds your attention. I do like the authors style and imagination.
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  • Hugh A. Gunn
    5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book. You will enjoy.
    Reviewed in the United States on 20 May 2014
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    I could not put it down. Each of Anna's books I have read have kept me in suspense to the very end.
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