Jim Gracie

Male

Dumfries & Galloway

United Kingdom

Profile Information:

Hometown:
Kilmarnock, Scotland, but now living in Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire
About Me:
A Scottish writer who has written countless travel books and articles. Since I was a kid I have enjoyed reading crime and mystery fiction, so last year I thought it was time I started writing it. No crime published as yet, though. But there's still time.

I review crime books for the Crimesquad website.
I Am A:
Reader, Writer, Critic
Books And Authors I Like:
Iain McDowall
Robert Goddard
Lawrence Block
M.C. Beaton
Val McDermid
W.D. Wingfield
Edgar Allan Poe
Catriona McPherson
George Simenon
Pierre Magnan
Henri Bosco
John Steinbeck
Mervyn Peake (the Gormenghast books)
John Sandford
Flannery O'Connor
Gayle Lynds
CJ Box
Patricia Highsmith
....I'll give up there, even though it's only a fraction of the writers I like.
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
I try not to watch too much TV (with varying degrees of success), because I am a sucker for crime series of any kind - mean-streets-of-the-big-city, retired-colonel-murdered-in-a-thatched-cottage-in-a-pretty-village, lone-man-saving-the-world,PI-with-a-drink-problem-and-an-ex-wife-who-sucked-him-dry-through-alimony. The lot, no matter how tacky, no matter how bad (...yes, I know, I know...), including

CSI
Morse
Midsumer Murders
Taggart
Breaking Bad
Frost
Miss Marple
Inspector Lynley
Waking the Dead


I am not a great movie buff, but I did enjoy watching:

Sunset Boulevard
Secret Window
Amadeus
MASH

I know I'm not being asked about my musical tastes, but it ranges from Mozart, Beethoven and Berio to the late Eva Cassidy (what a voice!), the Traveling Wilburies, Beatles and that superb jazz guitarist Martin Taylor (he bought me a drink once).

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