PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
William McIlvanney's first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association, while the third in the Laidlaw trilogy, Strange Loyalties, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize. He died in December 2015. The Papers of Tony Veitch is the second book in the Laidlaw Trilogy.
'A bloody good read' - VAL McDERMID 'The pure distilled essence of Scottish crime writing' - PETER MAY 'A crime trilogy so searing it will burn forever into your memory. McIlvanney is the original Scottish criminal mastermind' - CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE 'It's doubtful I would be a crime writer without the influence of McIlvanney's Laidlaw' - IAN RANKIN
