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*THE #2 BESTSELLING SCOTTISH CRIME EBOOK* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE McDERMID DEBUT AWARD 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE BLOODY SCOTLAND DEBUT PRIZE 2024* *LONGLISTED FOR SCOTLAND’S NATIONAL BOOK AWARD – FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024* Midwinter in Orkney. Six hours of daylight. A race against time to catch a killer. -'My debut novel of the year' CHRIS LLOYD'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' NASHEEMA LENNON-Reporter Freya Sinclair has always known she was different. While waiting on the outcome of an autism assessment, Freya uproots her life in Glasgow, quitting her job at one of Scotland’s top broadsheets and taking a local beat in her childhood home of Orkney. But her plans for a quiet life are shattered when human remains are exhumed by a winter storm on Orkney’s wild Atlantic coast.The identity of the bones opens old wounds in the islands, and sheds light on a darker truth nobody wants to accept. As the nights draw in, Freya’s obsessive hunt for answers turns into a cat-and-mouse game, with each secret she unearths threatening her job, compromising her family, and exposing new victims to a killer who's watching from the shadows…-'Daniel Aubrey can do for Orkney what Ann Cleeves has done for Shetland in this absorbing novel. It transported me' MARION TODD‘Twists and secrets galore … A nail-biting thriller you'll never forget’ CAROLINE MITCHELL'A tense read with emotional honesty … Freya is a triumph' CALLUM McSORLEY- REAL READERS LOVE DARK ISLAND ‘I absolutely raced through this exciting murder mystery. Daniel Aubrey's writing transported me. Freya is such a brilliant and complex character’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘If you’re a fan of location-based mysteries, such as LJ Ross or GR Halliday, you need to get your teeth into this series NOW’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Pacy and well-plotted and I loved the Orkney setting. I really liked Freya and there's lots of action and twists but it never at any point felt far-fetched’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Everyone should read Dark Island. I loved the neurodivergent character at the heart of the book. The ending was extremely moving’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The longest day. The deadliest sins. *From the bestselling author of Dark Island* All of Daniel Aubrey's books can be read as standalones. The residents of Orkney can’t sleep.Through 18-hour summer days, the islands are drenched in unrelenting sunshine.But a killer with a shadowy past is living undetected on the archipelago.As the heat rises, reporter Freya will not rest until she’s brought the truth to light. Can she stop the murderer before they strike again? The highly anticipated second instalment of the celebrated Orkney Mysteries series, The Dying Light is perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Elly Griffiths and Val McDermid - PRAISE FOR THE DYING LIGHT (ORKNEY MYSTERIES #2) *Longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year**Selected for the Critics’ New Blood panel at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival* PRAISE FOR DARK ISLAND (ORKNEY MYSTERIES #1) *Shortlisted for the McDermid Debut Award 2024**Shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize 2024**Longlisted for Scotland’s National Book Award – First Book of the Year 2024*'Daniel Aubrey can do for Orkney what Ann Cleeves has done for Shetland' MARION TODD'Twists and secrets galore … A nail-biting thriller you'll never forget' CAROLINE MITCHELL'A tense read with emotional honesty … Freya is a triumph' CALLUM McSORLEY'My debut novel of the year' CHRIS LLOYD'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' NASHEEMA LENNON