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© 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 and home-grown talent speak at the Granite Noir festival. It offered both live and pre-recorded aut...

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 weekend’s virtual Granite Noir crime-writing festival. The pair opened the award-winning event, whi...

Val McDermid: Queen Of Crime looks to the past in uncertain times of coronavirus Updated: 18/02/2021, 9:26 am © Supplied Val McDermid, who is appearing at Granite Noir, has started a new quintet of novels. Legendary Scots crime writer Val McDermid is busy using lockdown to go back to the future as she works on a brand new series of novels. With all the uncertainty surrounding life in the time of coronavirus, Val – who will be one of the main attractions at next month’s Granite Noir crime-writing festival – feels she can’t use her usual, contemporary voice in her writing. So instead s...

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. Jane Spiers, chief executive of Aberdeen Performing Arts, which produces the event, said: “Obvio...

Updated: January 30, 2021, 9:55 am © Supplied Val McDermid, who is appearing at Granite Noir, has started a new quintet of novels. Legendary Scots crime writer Val McDermid has declared herself “very happy” at the casting of the lead role in a new ITV cold-case drama series set in St Andrews. But Val is keeping tight-lipped about the identity of the actress who has won the role of her young detective Karen Pirie. Adapted from Val’s acclaimed novels by Emer Kenny, the story sees a group of suspects from an old closed murder case begin dying in suspicious circumstances. She has few qualm...