TARTAN NOIR

Fascinating, scholarly, yet highly accessible, this study of the Tartan Noir literary movement examines a number of high profile bes t-selling crime writers, including William McIlvaney, Stuart McBride, Caro Rasmay, Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Quintin Jardine, Louise Welsh, and many others. Based on the authors own research and in-depth interviews with many of the writers covered, it delves deep ly into what characterizes and defines the Scottish police procedural and psycho killer novel at the heart of Tartan Noir, while als o looking...[Read more]