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Crime fiction with Mat Coward: May 21, 2024
Dodgy deals in Fife, trouble in Tinseltown, London Chinese, and traps for ex-pats
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
MICK McSHANE rubs shoulders with Mod legend Steve Craddock and joins in with the joyous Glasgow choir
DENNIS BROE sifts out the ideological bias of the newest TV series offerings, and picks out what to see, and what to avoid
THE last surviving boss of one of Scotland’s premier crime families says he’s ready to do a deal, in The Devil You Know by Neil Lancaster (HQ, £16.99) — the location of a body from a long unsolved murder in exchange for transfer to a safer prison.
But DS Max Craigie and his colleagues in the Fife-based anti-corruption unit know there must be more to this than meets the eye: no Hardie ever helps the polis — that rule is part of their DNA. Can Max find out what he’s up to in time to stop it?
Endearingly eccentric characters, tense action and lots of lovely, authentic detail for the procedure fan explain why this series is rapidly picking up readers.
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