Today's #review is the Japanese thriller Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami
https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/sisters-in-yellow-mieko-kawakami
Slow moving and extremely intense
crimefiction
Scots Whay Hae! speaks to the five shortlisted authors for this year’s Scottish Crime Debut of the Year award: May Rinaldi (Liar Thief); Zoë Rankin (The Vanishing Place); Linda Duncan McLaughlin (Original Sins): Frances Crawford (A Bad, Bad Place); and Kirsty Lockwood (We Know What You Did)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXlAe5b0R5c
#Scottish #literature #podcast #CrimeFiction #BloodyScotland
“In 1990, the UK CWA issued a list titled ‘The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time.’ Number one on the list was THE DAUGHTER OF TIME by Josephine Tey. It was a good call then, it’d still be a good call now.”
Josephine Tey (1896–1952) was born #OTD, 25 July – a 🎂 🧵
1/7
https://crimereads.com/josephine-tey-a-crime-readers-guide-to-the-classics/
#Scottish #literature #crimefiction #womenwriters #20thcentury #JosephineTey
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@scotlit/116980516916106856
Josephine Tey’s Golden Age
Available on YouTube: the fourth episode of Queens of Crime at War, a six-part Shedunnit series looking at what the best writers from the golden age of detective fiction did once that period came to an end with the start of the Second World War. Caroline Crampton discusses Josephine Tey with Tey’s biographer Jennifer Morag Henderson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwLqXm4SH6Q
#Scottish #literature #crimefiction #womenwriters #20thcentury #JosephineTey #WW2
The Perfect Heist is out! Follow Ada and Eliot as they try to steal a historical diamond and outwit crime bosses on a Greek holiday island.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3RC5PHM
https://books2read.com/u/3GBA7L
https://www.susannashore.com/perfectheist.html
Val McDermid, queen of crime writing
The Royal Literary Fund podcast
The internationally acclaimed author of more than 40 books joins fellow crime writer & band mate Doug Johnstone to discuss: how the publishing industry has changed; the novel she had to run away to write; becoming lead singer of The Fun Lovin' Crime Writers in her sixties; & why she’s having more fun with more genres than ever.
https://podcast.rlf.org.uk/513-val-mcdermid-queen-of-crime-writing
The Tainted Cup (Ana and Din Mysteries 1) by Robert Jackson Bennett is currently only 1.99. This is a great detective series set in a wildly imaginative world. Should be everywhere.
AZ: https://www.amazon.com/Tainted-Cup-Robert-Jackson-Bennett-ebook/dp/B0C4JB56TJ/
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In Conversation: Callum McSorley
“I read THE CUTTING ROOM by Louise Welsh and everything clicked into place. Here was Glasgow, as I knew it but also totally different. Welsh had created a Glasgow that had all the glamour and seediness of hardboiled LA. This is what I wanted to write.”
Callum McSorley in conversation with Sindhu Rajasekaran about writing crime fiction & sequels, & his latest novel RAT RACE.
A Kick Up the Arts: Bloody Scotland 2026
In the latest episode of A Kick Up the Arts, Nicola Meighan discusses what’s in store at Bloody Scotland 2026 with this year’s guest programmer, Denise Mina, festival director Bob McDevitt and best-selling author and board member Craig Robertson, along with two of the writers shortlisted for this year’s prestigious debut prize, Linda Duncan McLaughlin and May Rinaldi.
https://www.akickupthearts.org/blog-3-1/bloody-scotland-2026
The Next Page
SNACK magazine’s roundup of some of the best Scottish books published in recent months includes a literary legend, Icelandic escapades, architectural marvels, failed historical ventures, police & thieves, & more.
https://snackmag.co.uk/the-next-page-scotlands-best-new-books-autumn-winter-2026
#Scottish #literature #novels #fiction #crimefiction #memoir #historicalfiction #JamesKelman
“Writing is a way of dealing with things. You give your problems and big questions to a fictional character and let them worry away, and you might get a solution or a bit of closure.”
—As Ian Rankin publishes his first standalone thriller in two decades, he talks about making sense of difficult experiences through fiction, & giving away a share of his success
https://www.positive.news/lifestyle/arts/writing-is-a-way-of-dealing-with-things-ian-rankin/
#Scottish #literature #writing #crimefiction #detectivefiction #IanRankin #writingcommunity
“Why do these characters […] seem to attract reinvention and retelling so much more than any other fictional creations? […] This doesn’t happen with Poirot, Father Brown or Lord Peter Wimsey. What’s so special about the denizens of Baker Street?”
—Stephen Fry on the enduring appeal of Arthur Conan Doyle’s great detective
#Scottish #literature #ConanDoyle #19thcentury #Victorian #detectivefiction #crimefiction #SherlockHolmes
ICYM: Announcing A Game of Poisons, Thorne & Hayes 1. It's a buddy cop police procedural and P.I. Tracy Hayes spin-off. Preorder links and an unedited sample chapter are up. Out December 6.
http://www.susannashore.com/gameofpoisons.html
Josephine Tey & the problem of time
20 Oct, Melrose. £6
According to Val McDermid, Josephine Tey is the bridge between Golden Age & contemporary crime fiction. Tey’s books were unconventional in their portrayal of sexuality & in their playful challenges to the norms of the genre, & also took unusual approaches to questions of time & space. Prof Timothy Baker investigates.
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #crimefiction #womenwriters #crimewriting #detectivefiction
Scots Whay Hae! – Bloody Scotland Prizewinners Special
The latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast is a Bloody Scotland prizewinners special, with the first joint winner of the Debut novel prize & the McIlvanney Prize for Best Crime Book of the Year, Frances Crawford, & the winner of this year’s Pitch Perfect, Caroline Grebbell.
“[TV detective Columbo is] a socialist figure,” Rankin says. “He comes into these very rich people’s lives and tears them apart, and they don’t know he’s doing it until he’s already done it. I just thought that was extraordinary.”
—“The crime fiction I’m interested in is political”: Ian Rankin on his new novel about the super-rich
#Scottish #literature #crimefiction #detectivefiction #novel #IanRankin