You will also be able to read the winning story along with the runners up stories on The Glencairn Glass website: from Monday 11th April. The runners up were Jennifer Harvey and Judith O’Reilly. The competition attracted entries from all over the world and the judges have now revealed the winner as Brid Cummings, with her story Halmeoni’s Wisdom – a dark tale of human trafficking, illegal trade and a desire for freedom. Journalist and author Peter Ranscombe will discuss his debut novel, a historical thriller called Hare, which takes the story of Burke and. The winner and runners up were selected by a panel of three judges including Deborah Masson, 2020 winner of the Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Novel of the Year, Peter Ranscombe, Scottish Field’s drinks columnist and author of the historical thriller Hare, and Bloody Scotland co-founder Gordon Brown, who writes under the name of Morgan Cry.

To support this creative collaboration, The Glencairn Glass launched its first very own crime short story competition, in partnership with Scottish Field magazine and Bloody Scotland, inviting all budding crime writers to curate their stories around the theme: ‘A Crystal-Clear Crime’. Hare insists he's escaped his blood-soaked past, but Boston detective Alexander Gillespie isn't so sure, especially when bodies start turning up who've been killed. Hare by Peter Ranscombe(Goodreads Author) 3.17 Rating details 18 ratings 1 review When William Burke was hanged in Edinburgh for mass murder in 1829, his accomplice, William Hare, was set free after turning king's evidence against his partner-in-crime. The Glencairn Glass has been celebrating Scottish crime writing talent over the past two years as headline sponsor of both the McIlvanney Prize and the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year Prize. Peter Ranscombe follows Edinburgh murderer William Hare to the civil war-torn United States in the years after his evidence condemned his notorious accomplice William Burke to hang.