And Denise Mina , author of '' The Dead Hour , '' published this month by Little , Brown & Company , is one of a crop of contemporary Scottish writers , like Ian Rankin , Val McDermid , Louise Welsh and Christopher Brookmyre , who have made detective fiction Scotland 's best-known literary form .
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