Debut Dagger 2018
Linda Duncan McLaughlin
Original Sins
shortlisted
A dark thriller about a troubled woman who sets out to trace her birth-parents in order to fill the black hole that is her past. When she unearths the shattering truth that her father was a serial killer – and that he’s still alive – she decides she must contact him to confront her fears about her own nature. What she doesn’t realise, however, is that he might have an agenda of his own…