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The Quaker

Audiobook
Fiction: Mystery
Unabridged   11 hour(s)
Publication date: 11/12/2019

The Quaker

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Audio CD ISBN:9781684578856
Digital Download ISBN:9781684578849

Summary

A must-listen detective story from Liam McIlvanney, author of Where the Dead Men Go.

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Product Description

It is 1969 and Glasgow is in the grip of the worst winter in decades, yet it is something else that has Glaswegians on edge: a serial killer whose name alone is enough to make them tremble with fear. The Quaker has killed another victim, snatching a young woman from a nightclub and dumping her body like trash in the back of a cold-water tenement. He leaves no clues, and the investigation has led police down one blind alley after another.

DI McCormack has few friends in his adopted city and a lot to prove. A talented young detective from the Highlands, an outsider with troubling secrets of his own, Duncan McCormack is brought into the investigation to identify where, exactly, it's gone wrong. His arrival is met with anger and distrust by cops who are desperate to nail a suspect. When they identify a petty thief as the man seen leaving the building where the Quaker's last victim was found, they decide they've found their serial killer. But McCormack isn't convinced. From ruined backstreets, to deserted public parks, and down into the dark heart of Glasgow, McCormack follows a trail of secrets that will change the city—and his life—forever.

Author Bio

Liam McIlvanney's first book, Burns the Radical, won the Saltire First Book Award. He is also the author of Where the Dead Men Go, which won the 2014 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel, and All the Colors of the Town. He is Stuart Professor of Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand.