THE PERFECT CRIME

For some completely unfathomable reason, Scottish writers seem to excel at crime. I mean writing it, of course. We have Ian Rankin, Lin Anderson, Stuart McBride, Aline Templeton, Val McDermid, Alanna Knight, Alex Gray, Quentin Jardine, Kate Atkinson, Catriona Macpherson, Paul Johnston - and I KNOW I'll have forgotten someone, which is a damned stupid thing to do to a crime writer. After all,