William McIlvanney

Fantastic - Lee Child Absolutely brilliant - Mick Herron If the truth's in the shadows, get out of the light . . . Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people. Now he's dead, and it was no accident. He's left behind his share of enemies, but who dealt the fatal blow? DC Jack...

Fantastic - like witnessing Scottish noir's Big Bang creation in the company of its greatest living exponent... like Maradona and Messi playing in the same team. - LEE CHILD Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people. Now he's dead, and it was no accident. Besides a distraught family and a heap of powerful...

The Laidlaw books are not just great crime novels, they are important ones - Mark Billingham It's doubtful I would be a crime writer without the influence of McIlvanney's Laidlaw - Ian Rankin When his brother dies stepping out in front of a car, Jack Laidlaw is determined to find out what really happened. Laidlaw begins an emotional quest through...

WINNER OF THE CWA SILVER DAGGER 'If you only read one crime novel this year, this should be it' - Guardian 'A bloody good read' - Val McDermid When a young woman is found brutally murdered in Kelvingrove Park, only one man stands a chance of finding her killer. Jack Laidlaw. He is a man of contrasts, ravaged by inner...

WINNER OF THE CWA SILVER DAGGER 'In a class of his own' - Guardian 'Reads like a breathless scalpel through the bloody heart of a great city' - Denise Mina 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...