Scottish crime fiction

Gunner by Alan Parks

By Paul Burke

21 July, 2025

Gunner is the opener for a new detective series set during World War II. As such, it delves a little deeper into the past than the author’s award-winning Harry McCoy series, which so vividly recreates 1970s Glasgow. It’s 1941 and former detective Joe Gunner is…

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The Bonnie Dead by Andrew Raymond

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

1 July, 2025

Glasgow author Andrew Raymond is well-known for his political and spy thrillers, but The Bonnie Dead is his first venture into the crime genre – a police procedural set in his home city. You’ll find it has all the things we love about Tartan noir…

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Interview: Andrew Raymond

By crimefictionlover

25 May, 2025

The Paisley-born author Andrew Raymond is the author of the Novak and Mitchell political thriller series, and the Duncan Grant spy thriller series. Crime fiction, however, he saw as an avenue to explore characters on the margins of society, dealing with social equality and injustice…

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Truly tartan noir: An t-Eilean on BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

12 February, 2025

When DCI Ahmed Halim (Sagar Radia) asks newly qualified family liaison officer Kat Crichton (Sorcha Groundsell) whether there might be any conflicts of interest before they fly to the Isle of Harris to investigate a murder, she pauses just enough to let us know that…

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Tommy the Bruce by James Yorkston

By RoughJustice

29 January, 2025

When Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature there were a few raised eyebrows. Whatever the merits of giving the prestigious award for his song lyrics, it’s probably safe to say he wouldn’t have won the award on the basis of his novels. There’s…

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Midnight and Blue by Ian Rankin

By DeathBecomesHer

24 October, 2024

Crime fiction has been invaded by a veritable army of silver sleuths in recent years, from Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series to books by Elly Griffiths and Steph Broadribb. But leading the charge is Ian Rankin and his creation John Rebus. However, like Michael…

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Squeaky Clean by Callum McSorley

By crimefictionlover

13 December, 2023

Glasgow author Callum McSorley’s award-winning debut novel brings us Scottish crime fiction with a new flavour. The book might be titled Squeaky Clean, but this is a story that’s rancid and filthy, in which every bodily fluid you can imagine is amply spilled, and if…

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Past Lying by Val McDermid

By Vicki Weisfeld

8 November, 2023

Publication of a new police procedural featuring Val McDermid’s intrepid Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is something to get excited about. The streets of Edinburgh have never been so ominous – or empty – as when this story takes place in April 2020, at the…

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Gunner by Alan Parks

The Bonnie Dead by Andrew Raymond

Interview: Andrew Raymond

Truly tartan noir: An t-Eilean on BBC Four

Tommy the Bruce by James Yorkston

Midnight and Blue by Ian Rankin

Squeaky Clean by Callum McSorley

Past Lying by Val McDermid

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