On Monday, May 16, 2005, at 10:41 PM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> Tut, tut, Jill (typical bloody woman, he muttered under his breath,
> misquote
> at the drop of a handbag), it's +The Sacred [sic] Art of Stealing+ <g>.
Robin,
Well, there you go, I got the title wrong but the name of the cop
sheila is Angelique de Xavier (typical bloke, forgetting a girl's name)
> The Glasgow-Pakistani policewoman heroine (and I seem to have
> misplaced my copy for the moment and I can never remember her name)
> occurs
> in Big Boy as well (and I think in one other novel, not sure on this
> though), so you're right on this, both these are Glasgow.
Yes, she whose name be forgot was in Big Boy. I've not caught up wit
the others you mention. Thanks for the heads up.
> I know he worked as a journalist in both Glasgow and Edinburgh, but you
> might be right about the Aberdeen connection.
Yep, it says in the bio note that he was born in Glasgow, for sure, but
also 'He no longer lives in Aberdeen. Yes.' And that he's lived in
Edinburgh as well as London and Los Angeles. Busy feller.
> Then there's Ian Rankin and the Rebus novels, and those certainly *are*
> Edinburgh -- lots of detail about the city, and linguisticaly light,
> not
> dialect.
I've read a number of the Rebus books. They give me a yen to visit my
granny's city - but not for too long. It all seems wet and grey and
narrow but perhaps I've misunderstood. And, yes, there wasn't anything
there I didn't really misunderstand, though it took me a while to
figure out Irn-Bru.
Cheers,
Jill
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