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Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Author Ian Rankin revealed that he upset villagers in Rosemarkie after setting a grisly murder tale there. The Rebus creator set his 2012 detective novel Standing In Another Man’s Grave in the Ross-shire village. It featured Inspector Rebus investigating the disappearance of a missing girl, and uncovering a link between a series of seemingly unconnected disappearances. M...

© Supplied by Granite Noir Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Aberdeen’s celebrated crime fiction festival welcomed guests from across the globe this weekend on its entirely virtual debut. Forced to take their show online this year due to coronavirus restrictions, thousands tuned in to catch some the best international...

Updated: 23/02/2021, 1:12 pm Aberdeen’s international crime writing festival Granite Noir attracted audiences from more than 50 countries with its virtual events being viewed more than 14,000 times. Readers from 52 countries including Canada, Bangladesh, South Africa, Brazil and New Zealand tuned in to last weekend’s festival which took place online due to the current restrictions in place. Organisers of Granite Noir declared the first online programme a huge success with its 15 events bein...

A village on the edge… As a massive storm batters the Scottish coast, Gordon Smiths home is falling into the North Sea. But the crumbling headland has revealed what hes got buried in his garden: human remains. A house full of secrets… With the storm still raging, its too dangerous to retrieve the bodies and waves are devouring the evidence. Which means no one knows how many people Smiths already killed and how many more hell kill if he cant be found and stopped. An investigator with nothi...

Updated: February 21, 2021, 7:08 pm © Supplied Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Two of Scotland’s top crime writers say it is more challenging to portray their police protagonists as heroes amid mounting global distrust of officers. Ian Rankin and Stuart MacBride discussed their work in one of the highlights of the w...

Popular north-east crime writing festival launches virtual event A popular north-east crime writing festival is back for its fifth year but this time it has gone online. Granite Noir, Aberdeens international festival, returns this weekend with a mix of live and pre-recorded author conversations, workshops and events.  It runs from tonight until Sunday with the likes of Val McDermid, Peter May, David Baldacci, Aberdeens Stuart MacBride, Iain Rankin and Isla Tranquair.  All events...

Stuart MacBride tells crime-fiction fans what not to miss as Aberdeen's Granite Noir festival gets ready to kick off with big name authors.

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Updated: 18/02/2021, 9:26 am Granite Noir has unveiled a glittering line-up of world-class crime writers – including Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Jo Nesbo and David Baldacci – when it returns next month. While Aberdeen’s award-winning crime writing festival is moving online due to the coronavirus pandemic, organisers say its mix of live streaming and pre-recorded messages offers the best of Granite Noir and hope it can reach an even wider audience when it runs from February 19 to February 21...

More than 260,000 books borrowed from north-east libraries in 2020 © PRESS AND JOURNAL Sharon Jamieson, Live Life Aberdeenshire Libraries and Information services manager. Picture by Kami Thomson. North-east libraries loaned out nearly 270,000 books last year – with a story about schoolgirl looking into a historic murder case and a child’s take on the refugee crisis among the top titles. The most popular book borrowed at Aberdeenshire Council libraries was  A Good Girl’s Guide to Murde...