Man in the frame

At a literary festival in the sleepy town of Hoslewit, gruesome events are about to unfold. Writer Jane Hepburn is hoping to make it big at the Killer Lines Crime Festival by networking with all the r

Crime fiction and screen adaptations have long gone hand in hand, from Slow Horses to Karen Pirie – now Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet are flipping the script and turning their new murder mystery, Bookish , into a novel

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Mark Gatiss’s star-filled new detective series Bookish is a case of mischievous fun