Telemystery: Denise Mina's Alex Morrow Crime Novels to be Adapted for Television

Director and producer Ridley Scott is developing an as yet untitled television crime drama based on the "Alex Morrow" mysteries by Denise Mina.

"It's a series of five books set in the contemporary Glasgow underworld," said the author, "and is being developed for a big series which will be like a Glasgow version of The Sopranos."

Mina introduced Detective Inspector Alex Morrow in 2010's Still Midnight. The most recent book to be published in the US, The Red Road, hits bookshelves next month.