I’ve just caught up with Netflix’s Dept. Q, which in a short couple of weeks has irresistibly climbed to the top of the ...

The winner of the McIlvanney Prize will be announced at the Bloody Scotland crimewriting festival in September.

Ian Rankin, . . Little, Brown, $23.95 (448pp) ISBN 978-0-316-76684-5 Rankin's moody Inspector John Rebus, unorthodox pride of the Edinburgh police, begins this latest installment in hot water.