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HARD MEN, druggies, and downright dangerous types trip off the pens of Scotland's current clutch of crime writers.
But what Stevenson historically called the 'murderous mixture' is a trait that twists liked barbed wire through the country's long association with the genre.
It could be argued it's something unique to Scotland, and the Scots, that delivers up the perfect ingredients for the crime fiction witches' brew. After all, Scotland is a place with a profoundly gothic sensibility and a dark sense of humour – two aspects which show up in its crime writing again and again.
The country also has a tradition of books telling tales of the more unsavoury side of life, and it's all done with great enthusiasm and relish, not least in the capital city.
Read the entire article.
A number of the writers mentioned -- including Guthrie, Ray Banks, and Donna Moore herself -- have contributed to CftAR blogs, and hopefully more of them will pop up here in the future.
(Hat tip to The Rap Sheet.)
--Marshal Zeringue
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