![]() ![]() 'A magnificent and enthralling portrait of a dark and dangerous city. ![]() For fans of William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw, Denise Mina and Philip Kerr. A city still recovering from the Great War split by religious division and swarming with razor gangs. As the case deepens, will Dreghorn find the killer – or lose his own life in the process?Įdge of the Grave by Robbie Morrison is a dark historical crime novel set in Glasgow, 1932. When the son-in-law of one of the city’s wealthiest shipbuilders is found floating in the River Clyde with his throat cut, it falls to Inspector Jimmy Dreghorn to lead the murder case – despite sharing a troubled history with the victim’s widow, Isla Lockhart.įrom the flying fists and flashing blades of Glasgow’s gangland underworld, to the backstabbing upper echelons of government and big business, Dreghorn and his partner ‘Bonnie’ Archie McDaid will have to dig deep into Glasgow society to find out who wanted the man dead and why.Īll the while, a sadistic murderer stalks the post-war city leaving a trail of dead bodies in their wake. She finds him with his mistress, a girl who only minutes earlier was her sonâ s girlfriend. ' Peaky Blinders meets William McIlvanney in this rollocking riveting read' – Adrian McKinty, bestselling author of The Chain The central scene of Savage Grace comes when Barbara goes to the airport to meet her husband. Early gangland Glasgow with the gloss razored off' – Peter James ![]() Shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2021 and longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown 2021 Winner of The Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year 2021 ![]()
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