Artefacts of the Dead by Tony Black
He is probably best known as the author of the acclaimed Gus Dury thrillers, set in the mean streets of Edinburgh, but Tony Black has turned his sights to a much less likely setting for Artefacts of the Dead. That setting is the sleepy seaside…
The Last Refuge
When Scotsman John Callum arrives in the Faroe Islands, he discovers a place that’s as forlorn and remote as he is. Callum is running from something, but it’s not clear what. For a while, it seems like he might just achieve the quiet solitude he…
Blood Whispers by John Gordon Sinclair
Following his blistering crime debut Seventy Times Seven, actor John Gordon Sinclair returns to the crime fiction scene with his new thriller Blood Whispers. Delving into the murky world of Eastern European gangsters, CIA operatives, and one lawyer’s fight for justice for her client who…
The Last Refuge by Craig Roberston
There’s a telling scene early in Craig Robertson’s latest mystery where the main character, John Callum, is attacked by two birds while hill walking. Once a teacher, he’s arrived on the Faroe Islands from a rougher part of Glasgow and is clearly escaping from something….
Never set your book in the Faroe Islands
Craig Robertson explains why writing a crime novel set in the Faroe Islands is so darned challenging… When we heard that Craig Robertson’s upcoming book The Last Refuge would be set in the Faroe Islands, at first we thought it was a brilliant idea. Robertson…
The Dead Beat by Doug Johnstone
With a story that features suicide, clinical depression and the struggling newspaper industry in Edinburgh, The Dead Beat might sound like a gloomy read. It’s certainly a hard-hitting psychological thriller, though its 90s grunge soundtrack and troubled, headstrong protagonist give the novel an angsty energy…
Black Mail by Bill Daly
The first in a new series, Black Mail is a debut crime novel from Bill Daly and it’s set in contemporary Glasgow. Billed as twisty and atmospheric, the book introduces us to DCI Charlie Anderson. Long in the tooth and old fashioned in some ways,…