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The godfather of Scottish crime is back with a vengeance

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WINNER OF THE CWA SILVER DAGGER

Meet Jack Laidlaw, the original damaged detective. When a young woman is found brutally murdered in Kelvingrove Park, only Laidlaw stands a chance of finding her murderer from among the hard men, gangland villains and self-made moneymen who lurk in the city´s shadows.

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Glittering VAL McDERMID

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William McIlvanney´s first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers´ Association. Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald´s People´s Prize. McIlvanney died in December 2015.

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