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In Val McDermid’s novel , the first in a planned quintet of "decades-spaced" mysteries, readers are introduced to Allie Burns , a tenacious young journalist navigating the male-dominated newsroom of the Scottish daily, The Clarion . The Historical Backdrop “This was a city of contrasts; beauty and ugliness