Scottish Women's Crime Writing : Forensics

Crime fiction often concerns moral dilemmas of choice and action. How do writers and their characters deal with these? Forensic science plays an ever-increasing role in crime detection. What impact does this have on crime writing? Leading Scottish crime writers Lin Anderson (author of the Rhona MacLeod series), Karen Campbell (author of The Twilight Time and After the Fire), Gillian Galbraith (author of the Alice Rice series) and Caro Ramsay (author of Absolution and Dark Water) talk about their work with philosopher Dr Jacky Scully and forensics expert Professor Susan Black.​

Presented to mark International Women’s Day (8 March) in association with Scottish PEN, part of PEN International, the worldwide organisation which defends freedom of expression and promotes understanding across frontiers. www.scottishpen.org The Million for a Morgue campaign is a unique fundraising project set up by the University of Dundee to help raise funds to build the morgue within the new Thiel Centre of Excellence. It will be named after the favourite crime writer voted by readers. Find out about this dead exciting competition by going to http://www.millionforamorgue.com/