Edge of the Grave
04 March 2021Imprint: Macmillan
Synopsis
Winner of The Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year
Shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2021 and the CWA Historical Dagger 2022
Edge of the Grave by Robbie Morrison is a dark historical crime novel set in 1930s Glasgow. A city still recovering from the Great War; split by religious division and swarming with...
Details
04 March 2021416 pages
9781529054040Imprint: Macmillan
Reviews
I’ve been waiting years to read a truly gripping historical crime novel set in Glasgow. That wait is over. Edge of the Grave is astounding. Tense, absorbing and dripping with gallus Glasgow humour, this book is absolutely wonderfulAbir Mukherjee, bestselling author of the Wyndham & Banerjee series
A magnificent and enthralling portrait of a dark and dangerous city and the men and women who live and die in it. I can’t wait to spend some more time with Jimmy Dreghorn and Archie McDaid. Robbie Morrison has produced an astounding debutMark Billingham, author of the Tom Thorne series
A mesmerizing debut – raw, brutally violent but immensely human. Early gangland Glasgow with the gloss razored offPeter James, number one bestselling author of the DS Roy Grace series
Robbie Morrison serves up a delicious slice of 30s gangster noir set in the grim and greasy, sodden and savage streets of Glasgow when it was the Empire's Second City. Peaky Blinders meets William McIlvanney in this rollocking riveting readAdrian McKinty, bestselling author of The Chain
