Edge of the Grave
Jimmy Dreghorn, Book 1
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Angus King
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Robbie Morrison
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Winner of The Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year 2021
Shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2021 and the CWA Historical Dagger 2022
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.
From 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.
All the while, a sadistic murderer stalks the post-war city leaving a trail of dead bodies in their wake. As the case deepens, will Dreghorn find the killer—or lose his own life in the process?
Edge of the Grave by Robbie Morrison is a dark historical crime novel set in Glasgow, 1932. A city still recovering from the Great War; split by religious division and swarming with razor gangs. For fans of William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw, Denise Mina and Philip Kerr.
©2021 Robbie Morrison (P)2021 Macmillan Publishers International
Kritikerstimmen
"A mesmerizing debut. Early gangland Glasgow with the gloss razored off." (Peter James)
"A magnificent and enthralling portrait of a dark and dangerous city.... Chilling and brutal, but also deeply moving and, most importantly, beautifully written." (Mark Billingham)
"Peaky Blinders meets William McIlvanney in this rollocking riveting read." (Adrian Mckinty, best-selling author of The Chain)
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Gesamt3 out of 5 stars
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Sprecher5 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte2 out of 5 stars
- Oncle Iroh
- 21.07.2023
Predictable stereotypical plot
The speaker does a splendid job and I liked his Scottish accent.
The plot, though more or less solid, was not spectacular at all. A great piece of crime fiction combines carefully crafted caracters with evenly mindful background and dialogues, all in relation to each other- "not this tide", however!
The historic varnish doesn't cover the fact that the plot was written according to the (crime writing) book. The storyline never leaves this well worn path of predetermined melodrama and of predictability and refrains to stray into the wilderness of an original and genuine piece of art. I know " Ours not to reason why", but why does the avarage crime novel always have to be written this way?
I am not tired of detective beiing a war veteran, but I am tired of some "Aragorn" guy who's war stories serve to add some greasy melodramatic pathos instead of some real depth. And I am tired of an
"unescapable predictable showdown", with the predictable killer, that is full of confessions, revelations and sudden madness the usual expected showdown allegedly must have.
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