This month we have a book package for three lucky winners containing a copy of each of the following titles:

• Under the Skin, by Michel Faber
• Winterland, by Alan Glynn
• Random, by Craig Robertson

Find out some more about these titles below, then enter the competition for your chance to win.

Under the Skin, by Michel Faber

Isserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone? An utterly unpredictable and macabre mystery, Michel Faber’s debut novel is an outstanding piece of fiction that will stay with you long after you have turned the last page.

A brilliantly compressed drama of threat and ambiguity . . . Recalling writers such as Jim Crace and Russell Hoban, Under the Skin, like Faber’s short stories, is an extremely assured and imaginative work.

• Read an extract from Under the Skin here on Bookdagger

Winterland, by Alan Glynn

The worlds of business, politics and crime collide when two men with the same name, from the same family, die on the same night – one death is a gangland murder, the other, apparently, a road accident. Was it a coincidence? That’s the official version of events. But then a family member, Gina Rafferty, starts asking questions.

Devastated by her loss, Gina’s grief is tempered, and increasingly fuelled, by anger. The more she hears that it was all a coincidence – that gangland violence is commonplace; that people die on our roads every day of the week – the less she’s prepared to accept it. Told repeatedly that she should stop asking questions, she becomes more determined than ever to establish a connection between the two deaths – and in doing so she embarks on a path that will push certain powerful people to their limits.

Random, by Craig Robertson

Glasgow is being terrorised by a serial killer the media have nicknamed The Cutter. The murders have left the police baffled as the only connection between the killings is that all the victims’ little fingers of their right hands havebeen severed. But as the police begin to close in on The Cutter, his carefully-laid plans threaten to unravel – with horrifying consequences.

• Listen to an interview with the author here on Bookdagger

The questions

To be in with a chance to win, answer the following questions correctly:

• Question 1: Where do the events of Under the Skin take place?
• Question 2: What violence is ‘commonplace’ in Alan Glynn’s Winterland?
• Question 3: What is the name of the serial killer in Random?

Terms and conditions

1. Closing date for entries: 7th May 2010.
2. Open to residents of the United Kingdom only.
3. Entry to the competition is by completion of the above form only. Anyone submitting multiple entries will be disqualified.
4. The winners will be selected at random from those correct entries received before the closing date.
5. Only the winning entrants will be contacted by Bookdagger. Our decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
6. The winner’s name(s) may be published on the Bookdagger website after the closing date of the competition.
7. The competition is not open to Bookhugger employees and their families, or to employees of Bookdagger publishers and their families.

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