Laidlaw

· Canongate Books · Narrated by William McIlvanney
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7 hr 17 min
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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.

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. WINNER OF THE CWA SILVER DA...

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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, the first two books in the Laidlaw trilogy, both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association while the third in the series, Strange Loyalties, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize. Following his death in December 2015 the McIlvanney Prize was established; awarded to the best new Scottish crime book at Bloody Scotland, Scotland's International Crime Writing Festival.
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, the first two books in the Laidlaw trilogy, both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association while...

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