The Winner of the 2025 Bloody Scotland Debut Prize is DAVID GOODMAN

David Goodman, winner of the Scottish Crime Debut Of The Year award, photographed in Stirling, Scotland with members of the Rubber Chicken Theatre at Bloody Scotland 2025.

David Goodman with A Reluctant Spy (Headline). He was selected for Crime in the Spotlight, reading ahead of Frank Gardner at Bloody Scotland 2024. Film & TV rights to his thriller about a successful Scottish sales exec who finds himself inadvertently pitched into a deadly mission on hostile territory in Tanzania have been sold in a hugely competitive auction. David lives in East Lothian.