![]() Rankin once described Mina as “one of the most exciting writers to have emerged in Britain for years,” and McDermid has referred to her as Scotland’s “Crown Princess of Crime.” Heady accolades, indeed, from two of Scotland’s crime-writing best, but well substantiated from a reading of this third volume in Mina’s planned five-book series about Patricia “Paddy” Meehan, her Glaswegian Irish-Catholic journalist turned sleuth.ĭespite her episodes of self-deprecation, Mina (pronounced MY-na) comes well prepared for her pre-eminence among the Tartan Noirists, a group that, besides Rankin and McDermid, also includes Christopher Brookmyre, Allan Guthrie, Manda Scott and Louise Welsh - all of whom have roots in the works of native-borns such as James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as imports Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. ![]() Denise Mina, the Glasgow-based author of Slip of the Knife (or The Last Breath, as it was published last year in the UK), has seen herself at times as “a bit of a cheeky cow.” Her Glaswegian and Tartan Noir colleagues, Ian Rankin and Val McDermid, have stated their views of her too. ![]()
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