John Connolly, Sarah Paretsky, Michael Connelly and more on a sometimes love/hate relationship

Spirits writer Dave Broom presents The Amber Light, a film about the drink and its cultural significance

After decades as a forensic anthropologist, Kathy Reichs decided to try her hand at fiction. But the woman behind ‘Bones’ has never lost her scientific edge

There’s more to LS Hilton and her writing than the ‘filthier Fifty Shades’ tag suggests

William McIlvanney: November 25th, 1936 - December 5th, 2015

What will become of the retired detective and his nemesis, Big Ger Cafferty. Will they fall into friendship or kill each other? Not even their creator, Ian Rankin, knows

Crime reviews: Declan Hughes on the latest from Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin and JK Galbraith and a compendium of women crime writers

Swedish writer captured a sense of melancholic struggle that echoed around the world

Ian Rankin is asking the questions; Marty Whelan is declaiming poetry; so what happens when Van eventually gets round to some music?

As Scots go to the polls to vote on independence, we select our favourite Scottish novels

Ian Rankin’s ‘Saints of the Shadow Bible’ and Lee Child’s ‘Never Go Back’ are two of this month’s new thrillers

The Scottish capital had moved on from haggis and fish supper, finds Susan Stellin

Kickback City to be published as part of compilation album of rocker’s music