A lot of Scottish crime novels are just plain nasty, it's possible to pull it off well, but it's a hard line to walk. Mostly it works as a comparison to the very real cities of the plot (I have endless fun following one writer's foot chases through the city I grew up near).
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Part of the problem is that (as Val McDairmod has pointed out), Rowling is used to describing unreal worlds, rather than using restrained descriptions of real places to juxtapose the horrible events of the plot.
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