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The godfather of Scottish crime is back with a vengeance

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Eck Adamson, an alcoholic vagrant, summons Jack Laidlaw to his deathbed. Probably the only policeman in Glasgow who would bother to respond, Laidlaw sees in Eck´s cryptic last message a clue to the murder of a gangland thug and the disappearance of a student. With stubborn integrity, Laidlaw tracks a seam of corruption that runs from the top to the bottom of society.

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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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