A review by liberrydude
Laidlaw by William McIlvanney

2.0

Dark, violent. Set in 1970’s Glasgow. The Scottish slang, cultural nuances abound. The textual dialogue of some characters in, I can only assume, Glaswegian dialect was hard to follow at times. Tension within the police. Criminals competing to find and kill the murderer of a teenage girl so as not to get the police wise to all their activities. Homosexual element to the plot. Not sure I’ll read anymore by this author. His narrative of the identification of remains in the morgue was well done.