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COLD GRANITE
BY STUART MACBRIDE
HarperCollins, 464pp, GBP 10
Review by SUSAN MANSFIELD
YOU CAN'T MOVE FOR detectives in Edinburgh and Glasgow these days, as "tartan noir" is burgeoning. Meanwhile, other cities are catching on to what might be called the Rebus effect - that there's nothing like a crime, real or fictional, to put a town on the map.
Aberdeen was a location waiting to happen: all that deathly grey granite, and the haar crawling in from the North Sea. Since the arrival of the oil industry, the city has known unprecedented wealth, alongside grinding poverty, and developed a serious drug problem. An aspiring detective could do very well there. It was only a matter of time before a big publisher decided Aberdeen was worth banking on.
Cold Granite introduces...