The Long Drop

William Watt is an ordinary businessman, a social climber, a fool. The local community is convinced that he has murdered his family. Peter Manuel is a famous liar, a rapist, a criminal. He claims he can get hold of the gun that was used. Watt is desperate to prove his innocence. One December night in 1957, he meets Manuel in a Glasgow bar to find out what he knows . . . `The extraordinary story of a 1950s Glasgow murder mystery' Guardian `The most exciting crime writer to have emerged in Britain for years' Ian Rankin `Mina can chill your blood and break your heart in the same sentence' Mark Billingham