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- Rowan
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1462
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: I love history, but it's boring in school. Historical fiction brings it alive for me.
- Preferred HF: Iron-Age Britain, Roman Britain, Medieval Britain
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Anyone know of any good female UK mystery writers? I had the name of an author whose setting is predominantly Scotland, but I don't remember who it was.
- boswellbaxter
- Bibliomaniac
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- Joined: August 2008
- Location: North Carolina
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[quote=""Rowan""]Anyone know of any good female UK mystery writers? I had the name of an author whose setting is predominantly Scotland, but I don't remember who it was. [/quote]
She's not the one you're looking for, but I love P.D. James's novels.
Is it M. C. Beaton you're thinking of, maybe?
http://www.agatharaisin.com/?section=hamish_macbeth
She's not the one you're looking for, but I love P.D. James's novels.
Is it M. C. Beaton you're thinking of, maybe?
http://www.agatharaisin.com/?section=hamish_macbeth
Susan Higginbotham
Coming in October: The Woodvilles
http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/
http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/blog/
Coming in October: The Woodvilles
http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/
http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/blog/
- Manda Scott
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- Joined: July 2010
- Location: Shropshire, UK
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Val McDermid is a Scot, but her books are almost exclusively set in England.
Denise Mina is Scottish, lives in Scotland and all her books are set there - they are excellent.
My first four novels - all contemporary thrillers - were set in Scotland. (and I've just written a sequel to the last, No Good Deed, which was until then a stand-alone)
hth
Manda
Denise Mina is Scottish, lives in Scotland and all her books are set there - they are excellent.
My first four novels - all contemporary thrillers - were set in Scotland. (and I've just written a sequel to the last, No Good Deed, which was until then a stand-alone)
hth
Manda
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Bestselling author of Boudica: Dreaming. INTO THE FIRE out in June 2015: Forget what you thought you knew, this changes everything.
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Bestselling author of Boudica: Dreaming. INTO THE FIRE out in June 2015: Forget what you thought you knew, this changes everything.
[url=http:www.mandascott.co.uk]http:www.mandascott.co.uk[/url]
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4378
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Did you mean Ann Cleeves? I've read the first in her Shetland Quartet, Raven Black, and really enjoyed it.
Or were you looking for something more historical?
Or were you looking for something more historical?
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Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- SarahWoodbury
- Avid Reader
- Posts: 496
- Joined: March 2009
- Location: Pendleton, Oregon
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Denise Mina? She's one of the "tartan noir" school of crime writing, and has just been here in NZ for our International Arts Festival.
I've just been reading M C Beaton's Travelling Matchmaker series- gentle regency romances which have a distinctive charm and totally lack any bodice-ripper tendencies. I've read quite a few of her Hamish MacBeth mysteries (I think Beaton's still turning them out), and loved the TV series.
I've just been reading M C Beaton's Travelling Matchmaker series- gentle regency romances which have a distinctive charm and totally lack any bodice-ripper tendencies. I've read quite a few of her Hamish MacBeth mysteries (I think Beaton's still turning them out), and loved the TV series.
- Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5860
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: "Mania" by L J Ross
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
- Location: Essex/London
yup Hamish Macbeth is still going strong, and last year a set of 4 novels set in the Edwardian period were re-issued in the UK - I read the first one and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think the Matchmaker series has also been re-issued here; and her Agatha Raisin novels are also still very popular.
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross
[quote=""Madeleine""]yup Hamish Macbeth is still going strong, and last year a set of 4 novels set in the Edwardian period were re-issued in the UK - I read the first one and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think the Matchmaker series has also been re-issued here; and her Agatha Raisin novels are also still very popular.[/quote]
How did I miss the Matchmaker books?? Thanks so much!
How did I miss the Matchmaker books?? Thanks so much!