Charlie Grant, an intense young student at Glasgow University watches his father die.
He died in December 2015..
Strange Loyalties , the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald\'s People\'s Prize.
Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers\' Association.
About author(s): William McIlvanney \'s first novel, Remedy is None , won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction.
With shades of Hamlet and Camus, William McIlvanney \'s first novel is a revelatory portrait of youth, of society and of family.
Overwhelmed by the memory of this humble yet dignified death, Charlie is left to face his own fierce resentment for his adulterous mother.
Charlie Grant, an intense young student at Glasgow University watches his father die
