Sep 17, 2016
THE LONG DROP – Denise Mina
William Watt is an ordinary businessman, a fool, a social climber.
Peter Manuel is a famous liar, a rapist, a criminal. He claims can get hold of the gun used to murder Watt’s family.
One December night in 1957, Watt meets...

THE LONG DROP – Denise Mina

William Watt is an ordinary businessman, a fool, a social climber.

Peter Manuel is a famous liar, a rapist, a criminal. He claims can get hold of the gun used to murder Watt’s family.

One December night in 1957, Watt meets Manuel in a Glasgow bar to find out what he knows.

Based on true events, The Long Drop is an extraordinarily unsettling, evocative and compelling novel from a writer at the height of her powers.

‘50s Glasgow is painted beautifully by the author – seedy gentlemen’s clubs, gritty rain-soaked backstreets, post-war council estates – wreathed in cigarette smoke, dripping with guilt. Our cover aims to capture that essence.

Harvill Secker will be publishing in March 2017.

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