Budding Murder Mystery Author Discovered

19 April 2011

Today we announced the winner of the Blue Toad Murder Files™ writing competition run in conjunction with The Independent online.

Ben Borland from Glasgow won with his short story WolfSkin, beating off stiff competition to win a place on the ‘Thrillers – Writing a Bestseller’ writing course run by the London School of Journalism, together with a copy of Blue Toad Murder Files: The Mysteries of Little Riddle on PC and a Dell laptop to play it on.

The competition ran for two months exclusively on The Independent’s website – budding writers were challenged to write their own murder mystery short story – and drew entries of a very high standard, including a collection of highly commendable stories from under 16s.

The short stories were judged by Jade Tidy, Relentless’ assistant producer, and Sue Moorcroft, a lecturer at London School of Journalism and author of a variety of bestselling romantic novels.

You can read more here.