Season 2, Ep 12 - Abir Mukherjee, Lin Anderson, Craig Robertson & Gordon Brown

So the tickets are now on sale at bloodyscotland.com. Full programme's available.

And we'd just like you all now to tell us a little bit about what you're contributing to the programme this year.

So Gordon, do you want to start by telling us about the event that you're appearing at in Stirling in September?

Well, I'm on with Kate Foster and Louise Herron in Dark Caledonia.

Louise Herron has done a book called Scottish History and 15 Violent Crimes from 1700 to 2000 and how it reflects changes in society.

So it's a great idea.

It just maps Scottish history through violent crimes.

And Kate's book's called The Repentance and it's set in 1790.

So it's two women who are forced to repent, who grow closer and then the husband steps in and banishes one.

And one turned to the other and they try and get things back together and it all kind of twists and it goes backwards.

So the connection with me is when I'm 1662, Louise's book starts in 1700 and Kate starts in 1790.

And there's actually quite a bit, the second story in Louise's book is actually about witchcraft.

Although witchcraft is complete, there's nothing there.

It's all to do, it's misogyny, it's all to do with guys getting in a situation where they've got themselves in a bad place or something's happened in their life and they just want to blame someone else or they're just swines.

But actually it's really interesting because it's the first time I've been in a panel where somebody's got, it's a fact book and it's not three fiction books.

So I'm looking forward to that because I think it'll be a really cracking thing to do.

And you'll be chaired by the lovely Alistair Braidwood from the Scots Wahey podcast.

So I'm sure that will be an excellent session.

Abir, what are you up to? Tell us what you're doing at the festival.

Well, I am appearing alongside the one and only Chris Brookmeyer.

It's 30 years since Jack Parley first appeared in Quite Ugly One Morning.

And Chris has written a book called Quite Ugly One Evening, which is a It's set on a cruise liner and Jack is front and centre.

One of the best things I've read this year.

I should say it's been 10 years since my first novel came out and 10 years since I went to my first bloody Scotland and stopped.

I ran down the road after Chris Brookmeyer to tell him what a fan I was.