The third novel featuring Detective Sergeant Lou Perlman.
Detective Lou Perlman returns to Glasgow's dark underbelly in the atmospheric new crime thriller.
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.
In this, the third Lou Perlman novel, Campbell Armstrong creates not only a stunning suspense narrative, but a sense of his native Glasgow at once vibrant and elegiac, with a set of characters that will live long in the memory.
