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I really urge people to try Scottish crime fiction or tartan noir as it's called |
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Reading the latest Stuart MacBride with Logan McRae...much better than the previous one, which seemed to be just treading water.
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Reading the latest Stuart MacBride with Logan McRae...much better than the previous one, which seemed to be just treading water.
Of the male tartan noir authors James Oswald and Malcolm Mackay are my favourites at the moment. I do intend to read Stuart MacBride again though, |
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I like Stuart but I tend to prefer female writers in this genre like Caro Ramsay and Denise Mina.
Of the male tartan noir authors James Oswald and Malcolm Mackay are my favourites at the moment. I do intend to read Stuart MacBride again though, |
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More Northern Noir than tartan, but I've also been reading Danielle Ramsay's books too. Again all the same sort of characters are recognisable, the trusty pathologist, the evil boss etc..
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Im currently reading Caro Ramsays First Novel Absolution and so far so very bloody good!
![]() Where is everybody else at? Lets not let the tartan noir DS flame die!! Also recently bought in paperback Denise Minas latest Blood Salt Water but haven't yet read it.
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taken a break from it for now
been reading joe abercrombie's stand alone novels set in the same world as the first law series i'll probably be back to my ian rankin binge after that tho |
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taken a break from it for now
been reading joe abercrombie's stand alone novels set in the same world as the first law series i'll probably be back to my ian rankin binge after that tho ![]()
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There's lots of good tartan noir titles out this year -don't take too long a break!
![]() ![]() My crime reading spree has moved to the Peak District and the Cooper & Fry books of Stephen Booth. |
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I've drifted away from James Oswald recently,. The last one I read was Dead Mans Bones and I couldn't get along with it - terrible ending! The series has drifted a little too far towards the supernatural for my tastes
My crime reading spree has moved to the Peak District and the Cooper & Fry books of Stephen Booth. Awe I think he's great but he does have a slant and style that would best be described as a partially acquired taste. Have you tried Caro Ramsay or Denise Mina? |
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I've got that James Oswald one in my collection '!
Awe I think he's great but he does have a slant and style that would best be described as a partially acquired taste. Have you tried Caro Ramsay or Denise Mina? |
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I'm reading Ann Cleeves Shetland series I'm on book 6, I've enjoyed them all so far.
I will check out some of the other names mentioned too. |
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Last week finished Scottish author Denise Minas The end of the wasp season and as usual a superb character driven multi layered intrigue.
How's everyone else getting on? |
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I'm reading Ann Cleeves Shetland series I'm on book 6, I've enjoyed them all so far.
I will check out some of the other names mentioned too. |
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to keep HoP happy
![]() ![]() i've not had as much time to read the last few months but went back to malcolm mackay who wrote the glasgow trilogy, mentioned a few times in this thread, and reading "the night the rich men burned" set in the same world as the glasgow trilogy with the same supporting characters but with different main charcaters and focusses on the dark side of money lenders and debt collectors its a nice change reading something from the perspective of the bad guys rather than the cops chasing them |
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to keep HoP happy
![]() ![]() i've not had as much time to read the last few months but went back to malcolm mackay who wrote the glasgow trilogy, mentioned a few times in this thread, and reading "the night the rich men burned" set in the same world as the glasgow trilogy with the same supporting characters but with different main charcaters and focusses on the dark side of money lenders and debt collectors its a nice change reading something from the perspective of the bad guys rather than the cops chasing them Apparently soon there's an annual Tartan Noir festival organised by Tartan Noir authors Lin Anderson and Alex Gray. |
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I love The Cutting Room set in Glasgow by Louise Welsh. Very noir. Also a Brookmyre Fan although I like his more recent ones less than the early Parlabane books.
I like Val McDermid but her books don't feel "Scottish" in the way that some of the other tartan Noir works do. Also I think the last couple of Tony Hill books were a little formulaic |
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I love The Cutting Room set in Glasgow by Louise Welsh. Very noir. Also a Brookmyre Fan although I like his more recent ones less than the early Parlabane books.
I like Val McDermid but her books don't feel "Scottish" in the way that some of the other tartan Noir works do. Also I think the last couple of Tony Hill books were a little formulaic Have you tried Alex Gray or Caro Ramsay? The latter being especially dark in some of her theme's! |
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I love The Cutting Room set in Glasgow by Louise Welsh. Very noir. Also a Brookmyre Fan although I like his more recent ones less than the early Parlabane books.
I like Val McDermid but her books don't feel "Scottish" in the way that some of the other tartan Noir works do. Also I think the last couple of Tony Hill books were a little formulaic "quite ugly one morning" is one of the funniest books i have read |
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cant beat the early brookmyre stuff
"quite ugly one morning" is one of the funniest books i have read |
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Would you say his more recent books are as good?
first time i read "quite ugly one morning" i was on a train from edinburgh to leeds and had people staring at me as i was literally laughing out loud as it was just so funny you'll probably approve of the underlying political message in the book as well its a short-ish novel and you really need to read it if you haven't yet |
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not as good but still worth a read, its pretty hard for any author imo to keep up with the sort of standard he achieved with his early books
first time i read "quite ugly one morning" i was on a train from edinburgh to leeds and had people staring at me as i was literally laughing out loud as it was just so funny you'll probably approve of the underlying political message in the book as well its a short-ish novel and you really need to read it if you haven't yet I have found a few authors get better or maintain the standard over time. For me Caro Ramsay is one of these. |
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Many Thanks for the tip!
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buy it now or i will start a thread in the politics forum saying you are a closet nigel farage fan
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Fans of 'tartan noir' may be interested in the 'Bloody Scotland' festival of crime fiction in Stirling, Central Scotland next month. Stuart McBride & Caro Ramsay will be talking about their latest books on Sept 9th.
More details here - www.bloodyscotland.com |
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Fans of 'tartan noir' may be interested in the 'Bloody Scotland' festival of crime fiction in Stirling, Central Scotland next month. Stuart McBride & Caro Ramsay will be talking about their latest books on Sept 9th.
More details here - www.bloodyscotland.com |
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