Bookstagram Tour Spotlight: To Be Frank by Kevan Christie
We’re thrilled to be partnering with Kevan Christie and The Book Guild for the upcoming Bookstagram Tour for To Be Frank.
Set in Edinburgh’s underworld, this darkly comic Scottish crime thriller brings together family secrets, journalism, ageing, addiction, redemption and organised crime in a story where hidden truths threaten to destroy everything.
About the Book
Title: To Be Frank
Author: Kevan Christie
Genre: Crime | Thriller | Suspense | Scottish Crime
Pages: 377
Publisher: The Book Guild
Bookstagram Tour: 15th to 24th May
Blurb
A controversial journalist, his estranged daughter in a crime syndicate, and a reformed thug with a dark past collide in Edinburgh’s underworld. As they navigate family secrets, redemption, and betrayal, their hidden truths threaten to destroy them.
A darkly comic crime thriller blending journalism, ageing, addiction, and organised crime.
Fifty-something newspaper columnist, Frank Savage, pens a controversial piece calling for dogs and babies to be banned from cafés as his swansong to journalism. Instead of being dismissed, the column catapults him to stardom and into further trouble.
On a night out, Frank spots his arch-enemy, Brewster, 56, an apparently reformed racist, homophobic football hooligan turned drug dealer, now a respected figure in the local community, whom he blames for his brother’s death.
This coincides with the arrival of his eldest daughter, Naomi, whom Frank hasn’t seen for years. A genius with numbers, she works for an organised crime syndicate in London, headed by the Wise One, but is desperate to break free and go straight.
The syndicate places Naomi in the seaside town of Portobello, Edinburgh, to work alongside Brewster, overseeing their money laundering operation.
As Naomi and Frank grow closer and begin to heal old wounds, neither realises they are both hiding secrets that would devastate the other.
About the Author
Kevan Christie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Raised in Craigentinny, Portobello and Leith, he was politely asked to leave school at 16 and started work in a builder’s merchant.
He spent the next two decades working in the city’s financial institutions, where he learnt little about finance and a lot about alcohol abuse.
He gained a degree in journalism from Napier University in 2006, working as a bookseller, youth support worker and taxi driver to help fund his studies.
His 14-year journalism career began with the Newsflash Press Agency before stints at the Daily Record, Dundee Evening Telegraph, Scotland on Sunday and The Scotsman, where he wrote a weekly column.
Tour Schedule
15th May
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@naomizzle
16th May
@bek.is.reading
17th May
@whatisloureading
@xkateareadsbooksx
18th May
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19th May
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@i.do.reviews.2026
20th May
@Booksbybindu
@a.r.turnbull
21st May
@bookwormwhitlock86
@what_rian_read
22nd May
@amaarareadsandtea
@paulcole.writer
23rd May
@ukbook_reviewer
@andreahulme43
24th May
@howseofbooks
@daisyhollands
Please do follow and support Kevan Christie over on Instagram at @Christie.Kevan, and keep an eye on the tour posts from our wonderful hosts.
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