First novel in the Lennox series, featuring a shady investigator on the tough streets of 1950's Glasgow.
Lennox Series
Step into the gritty world of a private investigator navigating the tough streets of 1950s Glasgow. This series delivers atmospheric and suspenseful tales filled with danger and intrigue. Follow the protagonist as he delves into the city's underbelly, uncovering truths in cases others wouldn't dare touch. It's a compelling look at a man confronting darkness in a relentlessly unforgiving environment.
Recommended Reading Order
- 1
- 2
Fast-paced and blackly funny noir for fans of Philip Kerr and Raymond Chandler
- 2
A Lennox Thriller: The Long Glasgow Kiss
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Glasgow in the 1950s - no somewhere you'd choose to be unless you were born to it. Yet Lennox, a private investigator of Canadian descent, finds it oddly congenial. Lennox is a man balanced between the law and those who break it - a dangerous place where only the toughest and most ruthless survive. Glasgow bookie and greyhound breeder Jimmy 'Small Change' MacFarlane runs one of the biggest operations at Glasgow's dog-racing track. When MacFarlane is bludgeoned to death with a bronze statue of Danny Boy, his best racer. Lennox has a solid gold alibi - he had spent the night with MacFarlane's daughter.
- 3
In this third thriller, shady investigator Lennox returns to stalk the dank, savage streets of 1950's Glasgow.
- 3
Human remains are recovered from the bottom of the River Clyde. Not an unusual occurrence, but these have been sleeping the deep, dark sleep for eighteen years. Suddenly Glasgow's underworld is buzzing with the news that the dredged up bones belong to Gentleman Joe Strachan, Glasgow's most successful and ruthless armed robber. When Isa and Violet, Strachan's daughters, hire Lennox to find out who has been sending them large sums of cash each year, on the anniversary of Strachan's most successful robbery, his instincts tell him that this job spells trouble and will take him back into the dark world of the Three Kings - the crime bosses who run the city. He takes the job nevertheless. And soon learns that ignoring his instincts might just cost him his life. This is the third fantastic thriller featuring shady investigator Lennox as he stalks Glasgow's tough streets. The Deep Dark Sleep is gritty, fast-paced, and totally absorbing.
- 4
Dead Men and Broken Hearts
- 432 pages
- 16 hours of reading
The fourth in a unique and memorable crime series, Dead Men and Broken Hearts is gritty, fast-paced, mordantly funny and totally compelling.
- 5
The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
The fifth book in the Inspector Lennox series