Scottish Detective Book Series to Read Right Now . Scotland may be known for its bagpipes, its whiskey, its sublime landscapes, and its Loch Ness monster, but as fans of MASTERPIECE mysteries ...

1. “Dissolution” by the late, great C.J. Sansom is our introduction to Matthew Shardlake: a disabled barrister with a keen legal mind, whose criminal investigations during the reign of Henry ...

His new Netflix series Dept. Q continues that lineage, adapting a series of Danish crime novels about a scrappy but talented cold-case unit, relocating the action to Edinburgh, Scotland.

Netflix's Dept. Q series is based on the Nordic noir book series of the same name by Jussi Alder-Olsen.Like the TV series, the books focus on Carl Morck, a detective who takes over the cold case ...

Ian Rankin's Scottish detective John Rebus is back ... Ian Rankin’s beloved sleuth of 29 novels was made into a TV series between 2000 and 2007 ... (he went from 40 to 70 in the books, ...

The author, who lives in Edinburgh with his wife Elizabeth Parry, is best known for his No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, which has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide.

With Netflix series Dept Q., Matthew Goode stars as DCI Carl Morck, a curmudgeonly cop afflicted by PTSD and almost Sherlock-level powers of deduction. Based on the novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen, which ...

Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith conjured up Precious Ramotswe, the Botswana woman who founded her own detective agency in the capital city of Gaborone. The series starts with The No. 1 ...