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None But The Dead by Lin Anderson
Lin Anderson is, without doubt, the queen of Tartan Noir. None but the Dead is the 11th crime novel she has written featuring the forensic expert, Rhona Macleod. The story is set on Sanday, one of Britain’s northerly islands in the Orkney archepelego. It is inaccessible when the wind prevents the ferry from the mainland …
Paths of the Dead by Lin Anderson
I like Lin Anderson. I say that to lay my cards on the table because I have no doubt that personal feelings colour our view of someone’s work. In this I always think about Jeanne Louise Calment, who died in 1996 aged 122. She was interviewed about a year prior to her death. She had met Vincent van …
The Special Dead by Lin Anderson
Lin Anderson is a gifted author whose writing continues to develop and grow with each novel she produces. She hails from Scotland and is a leading exponent of the “Tartan Noir” genre. Her most recent novel, The Special Dead, tells a gripping story firmly set in Glasgow, Scotland. It is already the tenth book featuring Anderon’s …
Blood Red Roses by Lin Anderson
I read this book as a quick reads edition. I needed to get through it quickly because Lin Anderson was coming to speak to the group of students on my Post-Graduate Creative Writing Class. She was delightful and very open. She took time to answer all our questions about whether to use a pen name, …
Driftnet by Lin Anderson
Driftnet was Lin Anderson’s first novel. It is quite short and very easy to read although it encompasses the disturbing subjects of paedophilia and political ambition. I met Lin Anderson when she gave a reading of another of her works in Stirling, Scotland. Blood Red Roses is reviewed on this site at: https://bookreviewstoday.info/2013/06/16/blood-red-roses-by-lin-anderson/. She is …
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