It's winter in Glasgow, and someone is killing prominent members of the city's business community in this haunting, atmospheric new thriller from the bestselling author of The Bad Fire and Jig. Glasgow December, all freezing rains and sleet that bites like schools of piranha. In this city of icy pavements and Christmas street decorations battered by arctic winds, the body of a well-dressed man is found hanging from the girders of a railway bridge! Investigating the case is Lou Perlman, a detective whose idea of a good suit is anything that fits him. Perlman feels that this is no suicide, and that something about the corpse reminds him of his boyhood in the old Gorbals. Perlman is a man with secrets of his own and, as one death follows another, the hunt for the killer takes him into a territory of deceit and greed -- a world of old allegiances that are lethal to reawaken.

The Last Darkness

campbell-armstrong

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

HarperCollins, Publishers

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Detective Lou Perlman returns to Glasgow's dark underbelly in the atmospheric new crime thriller from the acclaimed author of The Bad Fire and The Last Darkness. When a young Asian entrepreneur dies in a suspicious fall from his high-rise apartment and an Indian kindergarten teacher is gunned down in front of her class it's clear to Detective Sergeant Lou Perlman that he is dealing with racially motivated murder. The emergence of a group called White Rage and a growing sense of fear across the city of Glasgow mean that Perlman needs some answers quickly. At the same time, he needs to make sense of a crime that is closer to home -- the mysterious shooting of his own brother Colin. Lou's conviction that the killing is connected to the underworld boss Leo Kilroy nags at his mind almost as much as his unspoken love for Colin's widow Miriam. And when Lou Perlman looks beneath the glittering new surface of the city in which he was born, he finds all sorts of ancient connections, some of them painful, some of them shocking, many of them disturbing.

White Rage

HARPER/COLLINS

Campbell Armstrong met his first wife Eileen in Glasgow when they were both young. She was Jewish, the only daughter of an Orthodox family. When they married, Eileen showed Campbell the scar on her belly - the result of a Caesarean birth at 17. The baby had been given up for adoption in Yorkshire while Eileen got on with her life in Glasgow. The couple subsequently had three sons, and moved to America where Armstrong followed a career as an academic. He was also a drunk, a drug user and a belligerent partner. Though their marriage foundered, the pair remained good friends. Years later, when Armstrong had remarried and moved to Ireland, his son received a call from Eileen: she had cancer and was dying. The family flew out to America to see her. At the same time, far off in a Yorkshire house, a forty year old woman was trying to trace her mother. She was Barbara - her mother Eileen. After many hitches, the two get together and the awful truth is revealed, that Barbara, too, has cancer. What carries the two women through is their remarkable, positive personalities and - overall - an abiding love and integrity. This is a unique, poignant and incredibly positive memoir, full of candid self-knowledge and, ultimately, hope and love.

All That Really Matters

Biographies & Memoirs

Little,Brown

The text of the Lord's Prayer accompanied by fifteen illustrations of Amish life.

Jig (Coronet Books)

Coronet

When a visiting Communist Party leader is murdered in a crowded train station while under the protection of Scotland Yard's Frank Pagan, the frustrated agent's subsequent inquiry uncovers a plot by CIA agents and Communist hardliners to sabotage perestroika

Mazurka

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Hodder&Stoughton

Inspector Frank Pagan of Scotland Yard seeks out a deranged terrorist who intends to hijack a cruise missle and blow up Cuba

MAMBO

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Arrested for growing marijuana on his farm, Harry Tenant escapes from the cops and joins up with Alison Seagrove, a young woman coincidentally investigating the mysterious deaths of every one of Harry's former counterculture chums.

Concert of Ghosts Hardcover Campbell Armstrong

Book Club Associates

Concert of Ghosts

Coronett

Homicide cop Gregory Samsa is involved in a road accident in which his passenger, a 13-year-old hooker dies. With his reputation at stake for his career and daughter he omits the death in the accident report, but this one moment of weakness, this moral blackout, leads to a dark downward spiral.

Blackout

DOUBLEDAY

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The Last Darkness

The Last Darkness

White Rage

All That Really Matters

Jig (Coronet Books)

Mazurka

MAMBO

Concert of Ghosts Hardcover Campbell Armstrong

Concert of Ghosts

Blackout