In my heart Im just a lucky waitress.
Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.
In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.
There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.
Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.
To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.