The Laidlaw Investigation: Laidlaw: A Laidlaw Investigation (Jack Laidlaw Novels Book 1) (Paperback)

from jkdavies

Stunning. Stunningly written, with phrases that make a character come alive in the time it takes to slide your eyes along a sentence... The writing is so precise it's almost stark, and yet a whole life is contained therein. Did I mention stunning? William McIlvanney even tells us whodunit at the ...

from jtck121166

Laidlaw is the original and to my mind the best of the damaged depressed and decent detectives in the morally grey world of cops 'n' robbers. Laid low by his wearying yet tireless analysis of (at least his own) human condition, Laidlaw is forensic in his use of colourful simile and metaphor, maki...

from atticusfinch1048

An Oldie but definitely a Goodie This rerelease by Canongate Books of William McIlvanney's defunctive detective is a brilliant reminder as to why he is considered one of Scotland's best crime writers. For people my age, mid - 40s it makes the original Taggert look like a southern softie. This boo...

from JohnJGaynard

For years I heard that Laidlaw by McIlvanney was a classic and the father of all modern Scottish crime novels. Now that I have read it myself, I can say that I totally agree with this evaluation and I will read as soon as posible the two books McIlvanney wrote after Laidlaw. The dialect can be a ...

from jtck121166

Laidlaw is the original and to my mind the best of the damaged depressed and decent detectives in the morally grey world of cops 'n' robbers. Laid low by his wearying yet tireless analysis of (at least his own) human condition, Laidlaw is forensic in his use of colourful simile and metaphor, mak...