Scottish crime fiction

Squeaky Clean by Callum McSorley

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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The Opposite of Lonely by Doug Johnstone

By Sharon Richardson

13 September, 2023

Three generations of women in the Skelf family operating both a funeral home and a private investigation agency may sound like an unusual premise for a crime fiction book, however author Doug Johnstone makes it work. It works so well that The Opposite of Lonely…

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Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry

By DeathBecomesHer

26 June, 2023

Chris Brookmyre and his wife Dr Marisa Haetzman took that old adage of ‘write what you know’ to heart when they came up with The Way of all Flesh, first in a series of historical crime novels set in Victorian Edinburgh. Brookmyre, after all, is…

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To Die in June by Alan Parks

By Paul Burke

12 June, 2023

Alan Parks is rapidly setting the benchmark for dark Scottish crime fiction. Last year he won an Edgar with Bobby March Will Live Forever and the McIlvanney Prize for May God Forgive. Now that we’ve arrived in June 2023 and the sixth Harry McCoy has appeared…

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Run to Ground by Stuart Johnstone

By Paul Burke

29 November, 2022

The term Tartan noir might be getting a little tired or over used but gritty Scottish crime fiction still seems to be at the vanguard of British crime writing. Run to Ground is an Edinburgh set police procedural, the third outing for Sergeant Don Colyear….

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A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin

By DeathBecomesHer

23 October, 2022

It comes as something of a shock to realise that John Rebus has been around for 35 years – he first appeared in Knots and Crosses, way back in 1987. A Heart Full of Headstones is the irascible ex-cop’s 24th outing in print and these…

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1989 by Val McDermid

By DeathBecomesHer

2 September, 2022

The 1980s are having something of a renaissance right now thanks to TV series like The Newsreader and Stranger Things. Just ask Kate Bush, whose 1986 hit Running Up That Hill took on a new life after featuring in the latter show on Netflix. Val…

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Squeaky Clean by Callum McSorley

Past Lying by Val McDermid

The Opposite of Lonely by Doug Johnstone

Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry

To Die in June by Alan Parks

Run to Ground by Stuart Johnstone

A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin

1989 by Val McDermid

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