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LIN ANDERSON
| NEW WAVE CRIME WRITERS FEATURE IN THE
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OK ... so why do photographers always
ask me to sit down and prop my chin on my hand?
I know I am a tall lady, but what's with the hand-under-the-chin
bit?
So what if Rebus has retired? A new gang of Scottish
crime writers is eager to fill his shoes.
The Herald newspaper ran
an excellent feature on the New Wave of Crime Writers in Scotland in
their Saturday 16th February issue.
THE NEXT
CHAPTER
Picture this. A beautifully
preserved library, its books dusted and pillars painted the antique
white beloved of interiors magazines.
Into this serene
atmosphere bursts a babble of crime writers, each told to leave
their weapon of choice at the door. |
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Catriona McPherson
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Allan Guthrie
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Denise Mina |
Lin
Anderson |
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Karen Campbell
Alex Gray |
Aline Templeton |
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Lin Anderson
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Some of the nation's most exciting
authors, they have gathered ahead of Aye Write! , Glasgow's literary
festival, sponsored by The Herald. Among this year's highlights, the
crime genre will be celebrated with guests including the authors
gathered here. If they make it out the library alive, expect some
explosive readings at the festival, which runs March 7-15.
And still they go on. The murders: the stabbings and shootings and
stranglings and suffocations. The beatings and bludgeonings, the
drownings and defenestrations.
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It's now been five months since Exit
Music, possibly the last Inspector Rebus novel, appeared in
bookshops, but there's been no letting up in the number of killings
- fictional ones at any rate - in Scotland. Death is one of our
nation's growing spectator sports.
And here are seven of the culprits.
Posing in the library at Pollok House, Glasgow, the cream of
Scottish crime writers are sharing stories, recalling past meetings,
planning future ones and generally enjoying each other's company.
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