Region: Scotland (16 Listed volumes)
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Liam McIlvanney
The Quaker
It is 1969 and Glasgow is in the grip of the worst winter in decades. But it’s not the weather that has Glaswegians on edge: a serial killer is on the loose. He’s been dubbed The Quaker. He leaves no clues, he moves in the shadows, and the investigation into his crimes has led police down one blind... -
Alan Parks
February's Son
FINALIST 2020 EDGAR AWARDS The second thrilling installment in the Harry McCoy series. “McCoy is so noir he makes most other Scottish cops seem light grey.”— The Times A man hangs himself in a neighborhood chapel. Bodies of young girls are being found... -
Alan Parks
Bloody January
An exciting, evocative first-in-series noir novel set in 1973 Glasgow, a city on the cusp of a heroin epidemic, featuring detective Harry McCoy. -
William McIlvanney
Strange Loyalties
This third book in the series begins with the death of Jack Laidlaw’s brother in a banal road accident. His questions about the circumstances surrounding his bother’s death lead to larger questions about the nature of pain and injustice, and the meaning of his own life. -
William McIlvanney
The Papers of Tony Veitch
The second book in the Laidlaw Trilogy and winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award -
William McIlvanney
Laidlaw
“It’s doubtful I would be a crime writer without the influence of McIlvanney’s Laidlaw.” —Ian Rankin, author of the Rebus novels