At Bloody Scotland 2006, just outside Stirling’s Albert Halls, the main festival venue, Alan Jones and friends set up a cocktail bar and invited festival goers to stop in the beautiful September sunshine and sample one of their delicious ‘mocktails’. (Scottish Licensing laws precluded serving any alcoholic drinks.

  A mock up of the entrance to Bloq, the nightclub on the cover of Alan Jones’ latest novel was the backdrop to a street bar that attracted a steady flow of crime fiction readers.