Allan Guthrie is a Scottish literary agent, and an author and editor of crime fiction

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

. He was born in Orkney, but has lived in Edinburgh for most of his adult life. His first novel, Two-Way Split, was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award, and it won the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award

Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award

The Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award is a crime-fiction award, sponsored by Theakston's Old Peculier. It is awarded annually at Harrogate Crime Writing Festival in the UK, held every July. The winner receives £3000 and a small hand-carved oak beer cask carved by one of...

 in 2007. His second novel, Kiss Her Goodbye, was nominated for an Edgar Award

Edgar Award

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards , named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America...

, an Anthony Award

Anthony Award

The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986. The awards are named for Anthony Boucher , one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America....

, and a Gumshoe Award.

Guthrie is part of a literary circle that includes Ken Bruen

Ken Bruen

Ken Bruen is an Irish writer of hard-boiled and noir crime fiction.He was born in Galway, and educated at Gormanston College, County Meath and later at Trinity College Dublin, where he earned a Ph.D. in metaphysics. He spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, S.E. Asia and...

, Reed Farrel Coleman, and Jason Starr

Jason Starr

Jason Starr is an American author and screenplay writer from New York City. Starr has written numerous crime fiction novels and thrillers....

.

Guthrie's books are published by Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn Limited

Birlinn Limited

Birlinn Limited is an independent publishing house based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Established in 1992 by Managing Director Hugh Andrew, Birlinn Limited is composed of a number of imprints, including, among others:...

.

Novels

• Two-Way Split (2004)
• Kiss Her Goodbye (2005)
• Hard Man (2007)
• Savage Night (2008)
• Slammer (2009)

Available in ebook format

• Killing Mum
• Bye Bye Baby

and released in ebook format in Summer 2011

• Two-Way Split

Available in ebook format 1 September 2011

• Slammer

Prizes and awards

• 2001 CWA Debut Dagger (nominee): Blithe Psychopaths (Two-Way Split)
• 2006 Mystery Writers of America Best Paperback Original Award (nominee): Kiss Her Goodbye
• 2006 Anthony Award
  Anthony Award
  The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986. The awards are named for Anthony Boucher , one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America....
  
   (nominee): Kiss Her Goodbye
• 2006 The Mystery Ink Gumshoe Award (nominee): Kiss Her Goodbye
• 2007 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
  Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
  The Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award is a crime-fiction award, sponsored by Theakston's Old Peculier. It is awarded annually at Harrogate Crime Writing Festival in the UK, held every July. The winner receives £3000 and a small hand-carved oak beer cask carved by one of...
  
   (winner): Two-Way Split

Digital Publishing

On November 1, 2011, Allan Guthrie together with serial entrepreneur and social media expert Kyle McRae, launched Blasted Heath, the first digital-only Scottish publisher. All Blasted Heath ebooks are free from digital rights management

Digital rights management

Digital rights management is a class of access control technologies that are used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals with the intent to limit the use of digital content and devices after sale. DRM is any technology that inhibits uses of digital content that...

 (DRM) and are supplied in three file formats to ensure compatibility with all current ebook readers.

Prc works on the Kindle

Amazon Kindle

The Amazon Kindle is an e-book reader developed by Amazon.com subsidiary Lab126 which uses wireless connectivity to enable users to shop for, download, browse, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and other digital media...

, EPUB

EPUB

EPUB is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum...

 with virtually all other readers, including Nook and Sony

Sony

, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

 and PDF for computers and smartphones.

The opening line-up of Blasted Heath titles included three crime novels by Ray Banks, Douglas Lindsay and Anthony Neil Smith

Anthony Neil Smith

Anthony Neil Smith is a mystery/crime fiction writer who has had over thirty of his short stories published in literary magazines and crime writing zines. He is the co-editor/co-creator of the well-received online noir journal Plots with Guns...

. Also two debut novels, a cyber-thriller by Gary Carson and a novel for film lovers by movie critic Brian Pendreigh, are also available to buy.

External links

• http://www.allanguthrie.co.uk/ Official site
• http://www.blastedheath.com/ Official site