In Part One of our Crime Fiction Tour of Britain, we began our guide to the state of British crime fiction in the South of England.  Now for our follow up we pick up where we left off and tour the North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. As usual, all book links are to the Goodreads page for that book. Before we explore what British crime fiction there is in the rest of the mainland, we’re going to hop on a ferry to Northern Ireland as author Stuart Neville has got tw

What do you think of when you think of British crime fiction? For many people it might be Agatha Christie and her clever sleuths Poirot or Marple, investigating murder in cosy country houses full of people with secrets to hide. There’s a lot more to British crime fiction than that though, and one of the really interesting things is that a great many of them are attached to a particular place. In the way that many other novelists might rove around from place to place, crime fi