A review by jasonfurman
The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay

3.0

This book did not live up to the rave reviews. On the positive side, it was a reasonably engaging kaleidoscope of characters from the Glasgow underworld, all portrayed convincingly with rarely a false note. On the downside, the plot was relatively pedestrian, the characters did not evolve or face any particularly interesting internal conflicts and the situations were all out of other hard-boiled crime novels. That said, I would not rule out reading more books from the trilogy.