A stylish Doctor Who sci-fi noir adventure by award-winning actress Alex Kingston, featuring her most famous characters: private detective Melody Malone and legendary time-travelling archaeologist River Song. Working with Alex on this highly original new story has been such a delight, and we couldn’t be happier to be publishing her first Doctor Who novel. River Song is such an iconic character, and I think Alex’s many fans will be thrilled and amazed with what she’s come up with.” Albert DePetrillo, Publishing Director at Ebury Publishing & BBC Books Alex Kingston will publish her debut novel, The Ruby’s Curse on the 20th May 2021, from BBC Books. The book sees Kingston’s onscreen alter-ego River Song teaming up with her own fictional alter-ego, the irrepressible private investigator Melody Malone.

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New York. River Song, author of the Melody Malone Mysteries, is forced to find a reality altering weapon, the Eye of Horus. River doesn’t believe in curses – but is she wrong? The multi-award winning actor, best known for her role as Dr. Elizabeth Corday in ER, made her first appearance in Doctor Who for 2008’s Silence in the Library and has continued to play River Song on TV and audio to this day. Disney+ Releases New Doctor Who Trailer for 60th Anniver– WAIT, IS THAT BONNIE LANGFORD AS MEL BUSH?! It’s also not the first time River and Melody have appeared in books, with River headlining her own anthology book – The Legends of River Song– in 2016. To tie into the Doctor Who episode The Angels Take Manhattan, BBC Books released an ebook of The Angel’s Kiss– the book featured in the episode where the titular Melody Malone (actually River in disguise) helps the Doctor, Amy and Rory defeat the Weeping Angels.