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Interview: Andrew Raymond

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A couple of years back, Scottish crime fiction author Andrew Raymond took a brief sojourn away from writing his DCI Lomond novels for a research trip to South Uist in the Outer Hebrides. Andrew had a cunning plan, which is about to come to fruition…
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Blood Vengeance by Douglas Jackson

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The third of Douglas Jackson’s Warsaw Quartet follows Blood Roses and Blood Sacrifice and sees Polish investigator Jan Kalisz taken from occupied Warsaw and dropped in to northern Scotland at the orders of Winston Churchill himself. Krystina Kowolska, resistance agent and a mionor member of…
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Silent Bones by Val McDermid

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Opening one of Val McDermid’s police procedurals – especially those featuring Police Scotland’s Karen Pirie and her dedicated team in the Historic Cases Unit – is like being driven to a rewarding destination in a luxury limo. Everything works flawlessly, with no plot holes or…
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Gunner by Alan Parks

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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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