Liar Thief

Pre-Order Now | Out 2nd December 2025 | Paperback | Crime Fiction 

Winner of The Black Spring Crime Prize 2024

‘This is a psychological thriller unlike anything you’ve read before.’ – Luca Veste, author of The Bone Keeper 

Two childhood friends: one ‘killer ’, one cop. 

Ginnie says she is a serial killer who kills people who have wronged her.  No one believes her. Author Fiona Taylor is writing Ginnie’s memoir, The Killer Inside, trying to understand why Ginnie should still insist that she’s a killer. She recruits ex-DI, Tom O’Brien, to examine the evidence. As Ginnie’s oldest friend, Tom has his own insights into her story.

As her memoir unfolds will the decisions taken by  Fiona and Tom put them and their families at risk? Is it safe to release a self-confessed serial killer back out into society, even if there is no evidence against her?

May Rinaldi is a crime writer from the South-West of Scotland where she lives with her Norwegian husband, and two decrepit cats. 

She recently retired from her consultancy job in Health and Safety and, in the past, has worked as a taxidermist, mycologist and lab technician, all useful in crime writing – not only can her protagonist poison her victims, she can turn them into an interesting, mounted specimen afterwards.

She is the co-founder of Moffat Crime Fest, bringing top crime authors to the Dumfries and Galloway town of Moffat. She also runs writing retreats in her secluded home where visiting authors are only disturbed by sheep, cows and the dinner gong.

She spends her spare time travelling between Scotland, Norway and Gozo, and uses her travels as settings for her books. She is currently working on a Gozo trilogy; the Mediterranean island is as much one of the characters as the people who inhabit it.

Author photo by Kim Ayres