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.