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Welcome to the website of Debut Dagger nominated Ian Simpson, author of Murder On Page One.

The body lay on the floor, as warm as the blood that seeped through the plush Wilton carpet or trickled down the white walls. Glassy-eyed, brain-dead, finished, Lorraine McNeill’s high-achieving life was over. Her black skirt had bunched up round her hips, revealing long, shapely legs – legs to die for. Like a butcher arranging the shop window, the killer lifted a slender ankle and put underneath it a sheet of plain A4 paper. One character had been typed at the foot: the numeral 1. ‘Well, you wanted a murder on page one,’ the killer whispered, then left to be absorbed into the anonymous crowd.