Murder Mile
The term ‘tartan noir’ might have been coined for Tony Black. Following his successful Gus Dury series, he’s turned his attention to the police procedural and Murder Mile is the second outing for DI Rob Brennan, a complex and brooding character who makes Rebus look…
Cold Grave
Written by Craig Robertson — Random, Robertson’s first novel, is a firm fixture on my top 10 crimes novels. Genuinely chilling and with one of the most retch-inducing murders ever committed to paper it marked him out as an author to watch. His next, Snapshot,…
Blood Tears
Written by Michael J Malone — For a small press Five Leaves Publications packs a big punch. Their crime imprint is home to works by British noir stalwarts like Russel D McLean, Charlie Williams and Ray Banks. So Michael Malone’s debut novel Blood Tears is…
Interview: Michael Malone
The release of Michael Malone’s Blood Tears by Five Leaves Press will see the author initiated into the Tartan Noir gang this week. Billed a dark and pacy police procedural with a heart as black as coal, it’s a must-read for crime fiction lovers looking…
Mystery in Prior's Ford
Written By Evelyn Hood — The Scottish village of Prior’s Ford in Dumfries and Galloway has been through quite a lot in recent years. Feuds, scandals, and poison pen letters, but now the angel of death is circling and his target’s exit into the hereafter…
Murder Mile
Written by Tony Black — The term ‘tartan noir’ might have been coined for Tony Black. His Gus Dury series, following the gradual downward spiral of an Edinburgh-based private investigator with an Olympic grade drink problem and a tangled love life, was a brutal tour…
Hit and Run
Driving home from a swanky PR do in Edinburgh with his girlfriend and brother – everyone up to the eyeballs on pilfered narcotics and beetroot schnapps – Billy Blackmore drives through a pedestrian. Reporting it will mean lost jobs, arrest, maybe prison, so they do…