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The recent death of the Godfather of Tartan Noir, William McIlvanney, may have deprived Scottish crime fiction of the man who kick-started the entire subgenre with his novel Laidlaw, but the ranks of north-of-the-border literary skulduggery are still thronging, with such established luminaries as Ian Rankin and Val McDermid, while young pretenders such as Malcolm Mackay make their mark. Somewhere in between the veterans and the tyros is Dumbarton-born writer Stuart MacBride, who for a decade has been building up a heavyweight reputation with his novels featuring tough copper Logan McRae.
MacBride does not write novels for the squeamish. But for those with their...