The Dead wont sleep will be available on hard back and paper back in the summer of 2011 and is the first thriller in a series featuring journalist Rosie Gilmour.
…...In a pacey, fast-flowing page-turner that crosses from Ayrshire to Peebles, Glasgow to Edinburgh, it follows tough nut tabloid hack Rosie Gilmour as she pieces together a gripping sequence of murder, prostitution and child abuse that festers with police corruption and stinks to the very top of the Scottish judicial system….
….Rosie Gilmour, the star reporter who breaks the rules but always get the real scoop, looks likely to be a fixture of the Tartan Noir genre for years to come, with publisher Quercus lining up three more novels in the series.
The Dead Won’t Sleep moves at a rollicking pace, and smells of Scottish journalism in the 1990s, when it is set…
….Not a "feel-good" read – Smith's Glasgow is a place of unremitting grimness and unreconstructed police chiefs – but strongly plotted, written in plain, punchy language, and very good on the tensions and divided loyalties between the establishment and the fourth estate….
…..Scottish journalist, Anna Smith, gets a glowing review of her new book - from columnist, Lorraine Kelly, in today’s Sunday Post.
Writes Kelly: “’The Dead Won’t Sleep’ is a cracking crime thriller telling the story of tabloid journalist, Rosie Gilmour, unearthing corruption, greed and murder.
“Every single word rings true and, it is so cinematic, I’d be amazed if movie and TV companies aren’t falling over themselves to get it on the large or small screen. I’m glad to hear that this is the first in a series of books about [main character] Rosie [Gilmour] and I can’t wait to get my hands on the next one.”….