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Old 30-08-2015, 02:25
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Interesting thread. Have read just about everything Rankin has written but there are a few new names here for me to check out.
Thanks. If you like Ian Rankin then I'm pretty sure that you'll like Alex Gray who many reviewers say is Glasgows version of Rankin in terms of how brilliantly she captures the essence, feel and character of the city she's writing about.
you are a bad influence

just added the first 3 inspector mclean novels to my kindle
I'm delighted to be a bad influence! 😁 I'm about halfway through one of the Inspector McLean novels and I'm LOVING it! I reckon you will too!
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Old 30-08-2015, 03:50
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Haven't read that many but my favourite is probably Complicity by Iain Banks. It's not a police procedural story but it is crime, and Scottish.
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Old 30-08-2015, 14:06
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I'm delighted to be a bad influence! 😁 I'm about halfway through one of the Inspector McLean novels and I'm LOVING it! I reckon you will too!
if you haven't yet you really need to read some of brookmyre's stuff , his first book "quite ugly one morning" is laugh out loud funny
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Old 30-08-2015, 16:59
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if you haven't yet you really need to read some of brookmyre's stuff , his first book "quite ugly one morning" is laugh out loud funny
He's one tartan noir author that I haven't tried but should!

Denise Mina latest novel Blood, Salt, Water written with the backdrop of the independence referendum for the mystery is receiving great reviews and word of mouth and I'm sorely tempted to put it on my must buy list as Denise is a fiercely intelligent author of tartan noir who's style is a little different to many others.
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Old 30-08-2015, 19:00
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This isnt bad if you're looking for a Scottish crime thriller and it's free for kindle.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unburied-Dea...000963&sr=1-84
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Old 14-09-2015, 03:28
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fath...oir-1437772631

An interesting blog article on the appeal of tartan noir
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Old 14-09-2015, 03:30
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This isnt bad if you're looking for a Scottish crime thriller and it's free for kindle.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unburied-Dea...000963&sr=1-84
Thanks but how on earth do they make a living from writing if it's free?
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Old 14-09-2015, 15:46
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Thanks but how on earth do they make a living from writing if it's free?
they sometimes give you the first book by an author for free in the hope you will buy others

there are loads of free books available for the kindle
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Old 17-09-2015, 16:50
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they sometimes give you the first book by an author for free in the hope you will buy others

there are loads of free books available for the kindle
Thanks -I knew there could be cheap offers on Kindle but I never knew they gave stuff away for free!
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Old 18-09-2015, 10:39
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An article on writer James Oswald http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/b...big-thing.html
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Old 18-09-2015, 10:54
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i'm about 2/3 of my way through his first McLean novel , enjoying it but dont know if i have been reading too many authors of this style recently as it does feel a little samey in terms of the range of characters

interested to see how he pulls all the different storylines together tho
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Old 18-09-2015, 13:03
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i'm about 2/3 of my way through his first McLean novel , enjoying it but dont know if i have been reading too many authors of this style recently as it does feel a little samey in terms of the range of characters

interested to see how he pulls all the different storylines together tho
I like his stories but some of the characters such as the idiot boss do seem to be a bit cliched.
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Old 18-09-2015, 14:12
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I like his stories but some of the characters such as the idiot boss do seem to be a bit cliched.
just finished it now , i'll put my main thought in spoilers just in case

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Old 19-09-2015, 15:13
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just finished it now , i'll put my main thought in spoilers just in case

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I really liked it but I agree those elements were in a sense superfluous in the sense that the story could have worked well without them but I didn't find their presence problematic -they added something I felt if your intrigued by such things but the dynamic it added was non essential.
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Old 19-09-2015, 15:14
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i'm about 2/3 of my way through his first McLean novel , enjoying it but dont know if i have been reading too many authors of this style recently as it does feel a little samey in terms of the range of characters

interested to see how he pulls all the different storylines together tho
Have you tried Caro Ramsay or Denise Mina yet? Both highly recommended and quite different to James Oswald. 👍
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Old 26-09-2015, 21:49
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http://www.thebookseller.com/news/ne...-oswald-312805

James Oswald is doing very well -He's just signed a six figure deal!
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Old 26-09-2015, 22:01
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Have you tried Caro Ramsay or Denise Mina yet? Both highly recommended and quite different to James Oswald. 👍
no but got them on my radar , got about 17 books in my "unread" file on my kindle already
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Old 30-09-2015, 23:50
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no but got them on my radar , got about 17 books in my "unread" file on my kindle already
I've never tried kindle but your devotion to reading is phenomenonal! It's amazing how much tartan noir has grown in the past decade.
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Old 01-10-2015, 00:49
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Rankin, MacBride, McDermid are all great.
Personally I loathe Denise Mina's work and Brookmyre is really patchy, he's not as funny as he thinks he is and his plots are often really predictable.
I think I read a Ramsey once but it wasn't particularly memorable.
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Old 01-10-2015, 07:18
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Rankin, MacBride, McDermid are all great.
Personally I loathe Denise Mina's work and Brookmyre is really patchy, he's not as funny as he thinks he is and his plots are often really predictable.
I think I read a Ramsey once but it wasn't particularly memorable.
dont agree about brookmyre , his early books in particular were right up my street as far as the sense of humour was concerned , maybe he has tried to get a bit too clever with some of his later books but i still enjoyed them

the section of "a big boy did it and ran away" about aberdeen really made me laugh for example
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Old 01-10-2015, 08:56
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dont agree about brookmyre , his early books in particular were right up my street as far as the sense of humour was concerned , maybe he has tried to get a bit too clever with some of his later books but i still enjoyed them

the section of "a big boy did it and ran away" about aberdeen really made me laugh for example
The earlier ones were ok. I read them out of order which is why I said patchy rather than declining in quality I suppose.
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Old 02-10-2015, 02:20
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i've recommended christopher brookmyre a few times in this forum

one of my favourite authors
I took you up on that recommendation (finally), and I haven't regretted it one bit. Christopher Brookmyre is a wicked, wicked man. Love his writing to bits.

Thanks.
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Old 02-10-2015, 09:13
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I took you up on that recommendation (finally), and I haven't regretted it one bit. Christopher Brookmyre is a wicked, wicked man. Love his writing to bits.

Thanks.
nice , always good to see someone enjoy a new author to them
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Old 02-10-2015, 12:15
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Does anyone know if anyone has written books in this style were the main character is Gay?

I am not interested in any of those M/M erotic novels, looking something with a bit more grit
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Old 03-10-2015, 20:39
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Does anyone know if anyone has written books in this style were the main character is Gay?

I am not interested in any of those M/M erotic novels, looking something with a bit more grit
I think POSSIBLY a tartan noir author called Louise Welsh may have a strong presence of main gay characters in some of her novels but you'd need to research that pointer
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