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Leap in the Dark

Justin Kerr-Smiley
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18th century crime
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Edinburgh
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  • ISBN 9781916556737
  • Dimensions: 133 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Aug 2025
  • Publisher: Chiselbury Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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“A thrilling story, well told” The Edinburgh Reporter

Edinburgh, 1798. David Stoddart is a respected town councillor by day — and a thief by night. Addicted to the criminal underworld, he prowls the alleys of the Old Town, gambling away his loot and risking everything for the thrill of danger. As his debts spiral and his double life grows more perilous, Stoddart forms a gang to increase his takings — among them, an ex-convict on the run for murder. When a raid goes disastrously wrong, betrayal and bloodshed follow.

Hunted and desperate, Stoddart’s next move could spell salvation — or ruin. Rich with atmosphere and moral complexity, A Leap in the Dark is a riveting tale of duplicity, danger, and a man torn between honour and vice. As Robert Louis Stevenson observed: “Man is not truly one, but truly two.”
About Justin Kerr-Smiley
Justin Kerr-Smiley was born in 1965 and raised in Scotland. He was educated at Newcastle University. Awarded a BBC bursary for post graduate studies in journalism, he worked as a radio reporter in Sydney and London. He then joined the Associated Press (APTN) and has reported from Northern Ireland, the Balkans, South America and the West Bank. His first novel Under The Sun is published by Hachette. The Sunday Telegraph described it as: 'a small masterpiece; the best novel that I have read about war since Captain Corelli's Mandolin'.  In 2011 he received a travel scholarship from the Society of Authors to research Goodbye To The President: a novel about the 1973 coup in Chile, which was published in 2014. In 2022 Universe published Codename Edelweiss, a thriller about the search for Hitler’s son. He lives in London.

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