Hunter

William Coffey

CATEGORY CRIME FICTION
PUB DATE JUNE 2003
ISBN 1 902927 74 5
EXTENT 320 pp.
PRICE 9.99
FORMAT 234 x 156 mm, PAPERBACK



Tartan noir has a new standard-bearer. Coffey has created an authentic world where an evil on steroids battles against an anorexic good. . . He tells the story at a relentless pace, punctuated by a humour so biting it should be muzzled. Hugh MacDonald, The Herald

The bodies of two business men are left in the heart of Glasgow. The killer leaves a signature: her DNA. Sex and murder.

At a private health clinic in leafy suburbia, two pillars of the community play God. They take in asylum-seekers in the name of charity. The lucky ones lose only their babies. Money and murder. Three are killed in a brutal turf war over drugs. Mayhem and murder.

Inspector Sandy Hunter is an old-fashioned Glasgow cop who walks in the footsteps of the dead. It is the life and the living that he cant handle. Rules are there to be bent, and the Establishment turns a blind eye as long as he gets the results. He needs to get three. . . and quickly.

These murders would stretch him at his best. But he is far from that in a personal crisis, unhappy with his marriage and the man he has become.

Darkly humorous and taut as a wire, the strands of these murders entwine like a hangmans noose.

WILLIAM COFFEY is a journalist with the grim reality of over thirty years of newspaper stories to draw on.