Dead Wood is a 2009 novel by the British writer Chris Longmuir.""Chris Longmuir - Dead Wood, The List, Aug 10, 2009 It won the Dundee International Book Prize, the largest monetary British Prize for first novels, in 2009, and was published by Polygon Books. The novel is based upon the unsolved murders of 18-year-old Carol Lannen and 20-year-old Elizabeth McCabe in Scotland during the 1970s."Prize-winning Scots novel inspired by city's murders," Scotsman, 26 June 2009
See also 2009 in literature Scottish literature
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