The Dark Remains

In this scorching crime hook-up, number one bestseller Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-writing legend William McIlvanney join forces for the first ever case of DI Laidlaw, Glasgow's original gritty detective

About the author

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.

Summary

In this scorching crime hook-up, number one bestseller Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-writing legend William McIlvanney join forces for the first ever case of DI Laidlaw, Glasgow's original gritty detective

Additional text

[Rankin's] dialogue has the same spiky wit [as McIlvanney's], he adjusts to gangster-ridden Glasgow with aplomb, and the deft period context - politics, pop, telly, football, booze brands, language, family and marital mores etc - is the most compelling reason to read the book besides its charismatic existentialist sleuth

Product details

• Authors: William McIlvanney, McIlvanney William, Ian Rankin
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2021
• EAN: 9781838854102
• ISBN: 978-1-83885-410-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Crime, Scotland, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, Thriller / suspense, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural