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The Night Watcher by Tariq Ashkanani

The Night Watcher

Callie Munro Thrillers #1

by Tariq Ashkanani

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  • Dec 2025, 304 pages
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In this tense thriller from the winner of the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize, PI Callie Munro is hunting a serial killer on the streets of Edinburgh. But he's already found her…

As private investigators go, Callie Munro is tougher than most. She's had to be. Abandoned as a baby and raised by a succession of strangers, she knows a thing or two about surviving…

…but she never expected to find herself hunting a serial killer.

After uncovering a string of missing women―women no one seems to care about―Callie refuses to look away. With police ignoring the evidence, her only ally is an organised crime boss with his own agenda.

The deeper Callie digs, the more dangerous the hunt becomes. Every clue exposes another lie. Every step brings the killer closer.

She's fighting for the forgotten. But if she's not careful, she'll be next.

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"Ashkanani avoids cliché at every turn, opening the novel with a brief, stirring chapter that gives voice to each of the killer's victims…Meanwhile, his brisk, present-tense prose lends the action a ruthless air of inevitability. The result is an exemplary tartan noir that will leave readers eager for the sequel." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Tariq Ashkanani

Tariq Ashkanani is a solicitor and co-host of the writing podcast Page One. His debut novel, Welcome to Cooper, won the Bloody Scotland Debut Award 2022, as well as being shortlisted for both the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger and Capital Crime Fingerprint Award. His second novel, Follow Me to the Edge, was published in 2022. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and two sons.

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