Question: Blue Genes was a story in the series of books written by which popular Scottish crime writer?

full_context: Document 1: Alex Gray (author): Alex Gray, born 27 May 1950, Glasgow, is a Scottish crime writer. She has published thirteen novels, all set around Glasgow and featuring the character of Detective Chief Inspector Lorimer and his psychological profiler Solomon Brightman, the earlier novels being published by Canongate and later books by Little Brown. She has also written several magazine articles.
Document 2: Barry Forshaw: Barry Forshaw is a writer, broadcaster and journalist whose books include "", "The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction", "Brit Noir", "British Gothic Cinema", "Nordic Noir", "Sex and Film", "Euro Noir", "" and "" along with books on Italian cinema, film noir and the first UK biography of Stieg Larsson, "The Man Who Left Too Soon". He has written on books and films for many newspapers and magazines; he also edits "Crime Time", and is one of the talking heads for the ITV Crime Thriller author profiles. He records documentaries on crime fiction and film for a variety of BBC producers for both TV and radio, along with much work for foreign broadcasters. He has been Vice Chair of the Crime Writers' Association. As well as his specialist area of books (in most genres), he writes on film (booklets for special edition DVDs) and all aspects of the arts (popular and serious). He is winner of the Keating Award for Non-Fiction for "British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia" (Greenwood)
Document 3: Marion Zimmer Bradley: Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel "The Mists of Avalon", and the Darkover series. While some critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing, her popularity has been posthumously marred by multiple accusations against her of child sexual abuse and rape by two of her children, Mark and Moira Greyland, among many others. Zimmer Bradley's first child, David R. Bradley, and her brother, Paul Edwin Zimmer, also became published science fiction and fantasy authors.
Document 4: Tony Black (writer): Tony Black is a Scottish writer. Much of his work is in the tartan noir crime genre, featuring Gus Dury, Rob Brennan and Doug Michie. He has more recently pursued projects in other literary directions. Irvine Welsh has called Black his "favourite British crime writer".
Document 5: Anthony Horowitz: Anthony Horowitz, OBE (born 5 April 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His work for young adult readers includes "The Diamond Brothers" series, the "Alex Rider" series, and "The Power of Five" series (a.k.a. "The Gatekeepers"). His work for adults includes the play "Mindgame" (2001), the two Sherlock Holmes novels "The House of Silk" (2011) and "Moriarty" (2014), "Magpie Murders" (2016) and "The Word is Murder" (2017). He is also the most recent author chosen to write a James Bond novel by the Ian Fleming estate, titled "Trigger Mortis" (2015).
Document 6: Blue Genes: Blue Genes is the fifth story in the "Kate Brannigan Series" written by Val McDermid A popular Scottish author. The book was written in 1996 and has been advised that younger reader's do not read it as it has sexual responses and death.
Document 7: Kevin MacNeil: Kevin MacNeil is a Scottish novelist, poet and playwright born and raised in the Outer Hebrides. His latest novel, "The Brilliant & Forever", was published by Polygon in March 2016. MacNeil's previous novels, "A Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde" (Polygon, 2011) and best-selling debut, "The Stornoway Way" (Hamish Hamilton, 2005), were both published to widespread critical acclaim. MacNeil’s first book, the poetry collection "Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides" (Canongate, 1998), won the Tivoli Europa Giovani International Poetry Prize for best poetry collection published in Europe by a writer under 35. He is also the author of "Be Wise Be Otherwise" (Canongate) and the plays "Sweetness", an adaptation of a novel by Swedish author Torgny Lindgren, and "The Callanish Stoned" (Theatre Hebrides), and his short stories have been published extensively. MacNeil's anthology of poetry from the Scottish islands, "These Islands, We Sing", was published by Polygon in June 2011.
Document 8: Gareth P. Jones: Gareth P. Jones is a British children's writer, and author of the Dragon Detective Agency series of books. He is most famous for his comic-gothic book, "The Considine Curse", which won the Blue Peter Book of the Year 2012 and for "The Thornthwaite Inheritance". He also writes a series of books called Ninja Meerkats. His most recent book is called "Constable & Toop" and is a Victorian ghost story set in London, 1884. [Update: His most recent book is now "The Society of Thirteen".] As well as being an author, Gareth works as a TV producer.
Document 9: Denise Mina: Denise Mina (born 1966) is a Scottish crime writer and playwright. She has written the "Garnethill" trilogy and another three novels featuring the character Patricia "Paddy" Meehan, a Glasgow journalist. Described as an author of Tartan Noir, she has also dabbled in comic book writing, having recently written 13 issues of "Hellblazer". Since 2006, she has had two plays performed with unsuccessful reception.
Document 10: Val McDermid: Val McDermid FRSE, FRSL (born 4 June 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels featuring Dr. Tony Hill.
Document 11: Gathering Blue: Gathering Blue is a young adult-social science novel, written by Lois Lowry and released in the year 2000. It is a companion book to "The Giver" (1993) being set in the same future time period and universe, treating some of the same themes, and is followed by "Messenger" (2004), and "Son" (2012) in "The Giver Quartet".
Document 12: A Darker Domain: A Darker Domain is a 2008 psychological thriller novel by Scottish crime writer Val McDermid. Reviewers often noted the fast paced style of the novel as it flashes back and forth between two plot lines, a contemporary crime in 2007 and the investigation of a cold case from 1984. The novel is set in during the UK miners strike of 1984–1985 in Fife. Her accounts of the strike are particularly pointed, exploring the effects of the strikes on the emotions of the people involved and their community. McDermid was raised in Fife, and one reviewer credits her accurate review of the strikes to her experiences earlier in her life. The reviews of the book were generally good, many of the reviewers comparing the book to her previous novels. The New York Times named the book one of the "Notable Crime Books of 2009."
Document 13: Clare Mackintosh: Clare Mackintosh is a British author. A former policewoman, her debut novel "I Let You Go" was a Richard & Judy book club pick. It won Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2016, beating J K Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith.
Document 14: Jennie Erdal: Jennie Erdal is a Scottish writer. She is the author of" Ghosting", a memoir of her childhood in a Fife mining village and of being the long-serving ghostwriter of Naim Attallah, the publisher and owner of Quartet Books. She worked for him for 20 years, first as a translator of Russian novels, then as a commissioning editor, starting the series "Quartet Encounters", and finally as unacknowledged ghostwriter. For Attallah, she researched, wrote the questions for, and edited in-depth interviews for the collection "Women", and eight further volumes of interviews. Other writing under his name included two novels, a weekly newspaper column, book reviews, letters, poems and even love letters. "Ghosting" was the first book written under her own name. Described by Boyd Tonkin, literary editor of "The Independent", as a "modest classic", it was chosen as a BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week". Its literary merit led it to be shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book Award and for the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. Originally brought out by Canongate Books, it was published by Doubleday in Canada and the US, by Cossee in the Netherlands and by Aufbau in Germany.
Document 15: Out of Bounds (McDermid novel): Out of Bounds is a 2016 crime drama novel by Scottish crime writer Val McDermid. The novel is set during 2016 but because the main detective is in the Historic Case Unit (HCU) the crimes being investigated were actually committed in 1994 and 1996.
ground_truth: Val McDermid