![]() ![]() You may feel as if you’d like to give Gus a smack every few pages but the pit bull proves himself again and again. They’re gruelling, intense and exciting journeys – not without moments of humour and tenderness. The books see Gus sniff around the back streets of Edinburgh and follow the rancid trail of crime and corruption right to to the top. ![]() Scottish crime writer Tony Black, for example, is the author of four novels featuring punch drunk, booze addled Gus Dury, an ex journalist turned reluctant Private Investigator whose shoulder has more chips than Harry Ramsden. The godfathers of the new Brit Grit could well be Ted Lewis, Derek Raymond and Mark Timlin with J ake Arnott, J J Connolly, Ian Rankin and Val McDermid as part of the next wave.īut in the last few years, more and more BRIT GRIT writers have been creeping out of the woodwork, through the cracks in the pavement, out of the dark and dingy alleyways. And there is a new wave of Brit Grit writers leaving their bloodstained footprints across this septic isle, too. America may well be the official home of pulp and noir but the United Kingdom, long perceived as the land of tame Dame Agatha style cozies and stuck-up, Latin quoting police detectives, also has a grubby underbelly which has produced plenty of gritty crime writing. ![]()
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