The Intolerably Long Goodbye - an imagined extract from Nicola Sturgeon's crime novel - Euan McColm

As the paperback edition of her memoir Frankly hits bookshops, Nicola Sturgeon has revealed she’s working on a crime novel about a former First Minister with a dark secret. With speculation rife about how close Sturgeon will sail to the truth, columnist Euan McColm imagines that fiction debut with his extract from ‘The Intolerably Long Goodbye’