Sample of authors
MacBride, Stuart
Stuart MacBride is a Scottish author of crime fiction. He was born in Dumbarton near Glasgow and grew up in Aberdeen where he attended Middlefield Academy and Westhill Academy. He went on to study architecture at Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh without graduating. He has worked with scrubbing toilets on an oil rig and he was a graphic designer, actor, undertaker and computer programmer before...
Literary figures
Bailey Ruth Raeburn
Gender: Female
Raeburn is among the more original literary detectives by virtue of being dead and buried. By heavenly authority, she is allowed to return to earth in order to correct some mistakes, above all exonerating innocent people who have been convicted of a crime, in a series of cheerful whodunits by Carolyn Hart. The fact that Raeburn is rather absent-minded and tend to forget the rules puts her in a...