The Last Darkness

It's winter in Glasgow, and someone is killing prominent members of the city's business community in this haunting, atmospheric new thriller from the bestselling author of The Bad Fire and Jig. Glasgow December, all freezing rains and sleet that bites like schools of piranha. In this city of icy pavements and Christmas street decorations battered by arctic winds, the body of a well-dressed man is found hanging from the girders of a railway bridge! Investigating the case is Lou Perlman, a detective whose idea of a good suit is anything that fits him. Perlman feels that this is no suicide, and that something about the corpse reminds him of his boyhood in the old Gorbals. Perlman is a man with secrets of his own and, as one death follows another, the hunt for the killer takes him into a territory of deceit and greed -- a world of old allegiances that are lethal to reawaken.

Armstrong, Campbell

Harper Collins Pb

Detective Lou Perlman returns to Glasgow's dark underbelly in the atmospheric new crime thriller from the acclaimed author of The Bad Fire and The Last Darkness. 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.

White Rage

Harpercollins

About the Author\nCampbell Armstrong was born in Glasgow in 1944. He was awarded his BA degree from the University of Sussex. Three years after his first novel was published in 1968, he moved to the United States, where he taught creative writing. He lived there for twenty years with his wife and children, and produced twenty novels before moving to Ireland in 1991. Following the international success of Jig (1987), many of his books, including Brainfire and Asterisk, are once again available in the United Kingdom.

Asterisk

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

HARPER/COLLINS

Inspector Frank Pagan of Scotland Yard seeks out a deranged terrorist who intends to hijack a cruise missle and blow up Cuba

Mambo: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

When his Filipina housekeeper is viciously murdered, Charlie Galloway, a down-and-out Los Angeles cop, investigates and becomes ensnared in a web involving the CIA, revenge, and politics

Agents of Darkness: A Novel

Arrested for growing marijuana on his farm, Harry Tenant escapes from the cops and joins up with Alison Seagrove, a young woman coincidentally investigating the mysterious deaths of every one of Harry's former counterculture chums.

A Concert of Ghosts

Mystery

When a visiting Communist Party leader is murdered in a crowded train station while under the protection of Scotland Yard's Frank Pagan, the frustrated agent's subsequent inquiry uncovers a plot by CIA agents and Communist hardliners to sabotage perestroika

Mazurka

United States

When his brother, a political advisor, jumps from his Soviet Union hotel room, John Raynor searches for the truth behind his brother's death, and stumbles upon a Soviet plot involving mind control

Brainfire

Harper Paperbacks

Fleeing a drug-related arrest, former sixties hippie Harry Tennant returns to San Francisco where he teams up with Alison Seagrove, an investigative reporter, as they try to solve a mystery based on a famous photograph. Reprint.

Concert of Ghosts

Mambo

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