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William McIlvanney

    25 novembre 1936 – 5 dicembre 2015

    William McIlvanney è stato un autore scozzese celebrato per la sua fusione di realismo crudo e prosa poetica. I suoi romanzi, spesso ambientati sullo sfondo del Glasgow degli anni '70, approfondiscono temi di resilienza e complessità morale. Ritenuto il progenitore del 'Tartan Noir', l'influenza di McIlvanney è profonda, in particolare nella narrativa poliziesca dove il suo detective Jack Laidlaw incarna una profonda intuizione psicologica. Attraverso la sua voce distintiva e il suo potente senso del luogo, McIlvanney ha catturato l'essenza dell'identità scozzese e delle realtà sociali.

    The Dark Remains
    The Papers of Tony Veitch
    The Kiln
    Laidlaw
    The Papers of Tony Veitch. Die Suche nach Tony Veitch, englische Ausgabe
    Strange Loyalties. Fremde Treue, englische Ausgabe
    • Das Dunkle bleibt

      • 288pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      »Wenn die Wahrheit im Schatten liegt, geh mir aus dem Licht!« Jack Laidlaw muss in Glasgow den Mord an einem bekannten Anwalt der Unterwelt klären, bevor sich die rivalisierenden Gangs der Stadt deswegen bekriegen. Ein schottischer Noir vom Feinsten. Der Anwalt Bobby Carter hat ganz offensichtlich für die falschen Leute gearbeitet. Als seine Leiche in einer Gasse hinter einem Pub gefunden wird, das unter dem Schutz eines lokalen Gangsterbosses steht, gerät das fragile Gleichgewicht, das Glasgow seit Monaten zu einer relativ sicheren Stadt gemacht hat, ins Wanken. Außer einer verzweifelten Familie und einer ganzen Reihe mächtiger Freunde hinterlässt Carter auch viele Feinde. Wer profitiert von seinem Tod, wer ist dafür verantwortlich? Jack Laidlaws Reputation ist unbestritten. Er ist kein Teamplayer, aber er hat einen sechsten Sinn für die Straße. Für seinen Chef ist klar, dass hinter diesem Mord rivalisierende Gangs stecken. Laidlaw bezweifelt das. Auf jeden Fall muss er, bevor es zwischen den Gangs zum Krieg kommt, den Killer finden, sonst explodiert die Stadt. »Das Dunkle bleibt« ist ein von Ian Rankin vollendetes Laidlaw-Manuskript aus McIlvanneys Nachlass und ein literarisches Ereignis: »Laidlaw ist zurück in den dunklen Straßen von Glasgow«, schreibt der Autor Alan Parks, »und er ist so großartig, so schwierig, wie er immer war – einfach Kult.«

      Das Dunkle bleibt2022
      2,5
    • F the truth's in the shadows, get out of the light... Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people. Now he's dead and it was no accident. He's left behind his share of enemies, but who dealt the fatal blow? DC Jack Laidlaw's reputation precedes him. He's not a team player, but he's got a sixth sense for what's happening on the streets. As two Glasgow gangs go to war, Laidlaw needs to find out who got Carter before the whole city explodes.

      The Dark Remains2021
      3,7
    • The Papers of Tony Veitch

      • 320pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      The CWA Silver Dagger-winning masterpiece from the godfather of Scottish crime fiction

      The Papers of Tony Veitch2020
      3,9
    • Die Suche nach Tony Veitch

      Eine Jack Laidlaw Ermittlung

      • 316pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Laidlaws zweiter Fall! Eck Adamson, ein vagabundierender Trunkenbold, ruft Jack Laidlaw an sein Sterbebett. In seinen letzten kryptischen Worten entdeckt Laidlaw einen Hinweis auf den Mord an einem Gangster und das Verschwinden eines Studenten. Mit der ihm eigenen Dickköpfigkeit kämpft sich Laidlaw durch das Geflecht an Korruption und Gewalt, das Glasgow von ganz oben bis ganz unten durchzieht.

      Die Suche nach Tony Veitch2015
    • McIlvanney once again sets out on the dark side of Glasgow with Detective Jack Laidlaw. "The wine he gave me winsy wine" were the final words of Eck Adamson to Laidlaw, his only friend. Laidlaw is convinced the Eck was murdered and that an elusive young student, Tony Veitch, holds the key to the mystery.

      The Papers of Tony Veitch. Die Suche nach Tony Veitch, englische Ausgabe2013
      4,0
    • Detective Inspector Jack Laidlaw blunders his way through ruined lives and frustrated relationships investigating his brother's murder and a drug pusher in Glasgow.

      Strange Loyalties. Fremde Treue, englische Ausgabe2013
      4,2
    • Laidlaw

      • 250pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      Book One in the Laidlaw Trilogy "Laidlaw...'is not just an inspector of crime; he's an inspector of society.'"--Allan Massie, "The Father of 'Tartan Noir'," Wall Street Journal Introducing Jack Laidlaw, the original damaged detective. The Laidlaw novels, a groundbreaking trilogy that changed the face of Scottish fiction, are credited with being the founding books of the Tartan Noir movement that includes authors like Val McDermid, Denise Mina, and Ian Rankin. Says McDermid of William McIlvanney: "Patricia Highsmith had taken us inside the head of killers; Ruth Rendell tentatively explored sexuality; with No Mean City, Alexander McArthur had exposed Glasgow to the world; Raymond Chandler had dressed the darkness in clever words. But nobody had ever smashed those elements together into so accomplished a synthesis." In Laidlaw, the first book of the seies, readers meet Jack Laidlaw, a hard-drinking philosopher-detective whose tough exterior cloaks a rich humanity and keen intelligence. Laidlaw's investigation into the murder of a young woman brings him into conflict with Glasgow's hard men, its gangland villians, and the moneyed thugs who control the city. As the gangsters running Glasgow race Laidlaw for the discovery of the young woman's killer, a sense of dangerous betrayal infests the city that only Laidlaw can erase.

      Laidlaw2013
      4,0
    • Weekend

      • 272pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      'Illuminating and thought-provoking' Irvine Welsh, Guardian

      Weekend2006
      2,9
    • The Kiln

      • 288pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      Featuring the same family, two generations on, as DochertyTom Docherty was 17 in the summer of 1955. With school behind him and a summer job at a brick works, Tom had his whole life before him. Years later, alone in a rented flat in Edinburgh and lost in memories, Tom recalls the intellectual and sexual awakening of his youth. In looking back, Tom discovers that only by understanding where he comes from can he make sense of his life as it is now.

      The Kiln1997
      3,9