Book event
True Crime: An Evening with Tom Wood and Simon McLean
Tuesday 10 November 2026, 7pm – 8.30pm
Venue
St Columba's Senior SchoolLyle Road entrance
Kilmacolm PA13 4AX
Speakers
Tom Wood, Simon McLean
Organiser
Price
Free
Free event. Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Booking details to follow from The Ginger Cat Bookshop.
Tom Wood and Simon McLean, former detectives and co-hosts of the Crime Time Inc. podcast, come to Kilmacolm for an evening of true crime, hosted by The Ginger Cat Bookshop.
Tom is a former Deputy Chief Constable who spent nearly four decades in the police, much of it in CID. Simon spent his career in CID with Strathclyde, working on the murder squad and undercover. Expect stories from real investigations, the cases that shaped them, and the books that came out of it all.
The event is at St Columba's Senior School, with access via the Lyle Road entrance. Doors open at 6.30pm and the evening starts at 7pm.
Books
Kintyre
Simon McLean
Simon's debut Eddie Weir thriller, in which a retired detective is drawn back to a case that was never properly investigated, and finds that what went wrong was a deliberate choice rather than a mistake. It is a story of organised crime operating across Scotland, the UK and Ireland, alongside the people trusted to stop it.
Buy Kintyre →The Ten Percent
Simon McLean
A frank memoir of Simon's decades on the front line and undercover, written with bluntness and dark humour, about how decisions really get made inside the system and what they mean for victims, families and communities long after the news moves on.
Sex, Spies and Bloody Murder
Tom Wood
Tom's newest book collects true stories from Scotland's underbelly, from a hapless group of German spies landed in Scotland during the Second World War to the tale of the country's greatest policeman and its most notorious brothel keeper.
Buy Sex, Spies and Bloody Murder →Ruxton: The First Modern Murder
Tom Wood
The inside story of a 1935 Lancaster murder investigation of extraordinary complexity, and the pioneering work of the Scottish forensic scientists who cracked it. It was shortlisted for the Saltire Society's Scottish National Book Awards in 2021 and was its publisher's top seller four years running.
Buy Ruxton: The First Modern Murder →The World's End Murders: The Inside Story
Tom Wood
An account of the 1977 murders of two Edinburgh teenagers, one of the most notorious cases in Scottish criminal history, told by one of the original investigators, tracing how detectives and scientists spent nearly four decades pursuing justice.
Buy The World's End Murders: The Inside Story →Related events
About Crime Time Inc.
Real true crime stories told by the law enforcement officers who lived them. Hosted by former detectives Simon McLean and Tom Wood.