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It’s taken a couple of decades, but the protagonist of The Cutting Room is back. Rilke is a middle-aged auctioneer in Glasgow, who enjoys hooking up with other men on Grindr. A friend gives him a tip about a house clearance, is found dead the following day, and the story unfolds from there. The author, Louise Welsh, is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow and the book is on the literary end of mystery-writing. As the author of Trainspotting put it in his interview with us, “to my mind she is not really a crime writer. She is a very serious literary writer working in crime”
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