The Long Drop

A thrilling literary suspense novel from the multi-award-winning crime writer'A masterpiece by the woman who may be Britain's finest living crime novelist' Daily Telegraph'Absorbing... this is a bravura performance, a true original' Ian RankinGlasgow, 1957. It is a December night and William Watt is desperate. His family has been murdered and he needs to find out who killed them.He arrives at a bar to meet Peter Manuel, who claims he can get hold of the gun that was used. But Watt soon realises that this infamous criminal will not give up information easily.Inspired by true events, The Long Drop follows Watt and Manuel along back streets and into smoky pubs, and on to the courtroom where the murder trial takes place. Can Manuel really be trusted to tell the truth? And how far will Watt go to get what he wants?A TIMES TOP 10 CRIME NOVEL OF THE DECADE__Praise for THE LONG DROP-'Extraordinary' Guardian'This book is so, so good. Forensic, beautiful and gripping' Graham Norton'Revisits a dark episode in Glasgow's past... Mina navigates the uneasy territory between fact and fiction with consummate grace' Val McDermid

Winner of Gordon Burn Prize 2017 (UK) Winner of Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize 2017 (UK) Short-listed for Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year 2017 (UK) Short-listed for CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger 2017 (UK) Short-listed for Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2018 (UK)

“Not a single word is wasted in this beautifully written novel. Unsettling, evocative and staggeringly good, it is possibly Mina's finest achievement”

Angry, vital and unputdownable, The Long Drop’s themes of self-deception resonate long after the final page. This is crime fiction at its very best -- Joseph Knox, author of Sirens
Not a single word is wasted in this beautifully written novel. Unsettling, evocative and staggeringly good, it is possibly Mina’s finest achievement Daily Express
A wonderfully atmospheric, unsettling read. -- Louise Rhind-Tutt i
Deeply unsettling and thought provoking in all the best ways -- Doug Johnstone Big Issue
The Long Drop is an exceptional book. The pages reek of fifties Glasgow, forming an oppressive backdrop to a true crime story that fascinates and appals from start to finish. Mina’s prose cuts to the bone, laying bare the prideful wickedness of men in a tale that is as often touching as it is frightening. A feast of a crime novel. Stuart Neville
The Long Drop is a fascinating, quietly insidious work, unsettling but absorbing -- Marcel Berlins The Times
It is a beautifully written book, a masterpiece by the woman who may be Britain’s finest living crime novelist Daily Telegraph
The Long Drop is not just a success and a thrilling read in its own right, but a game-changer for the genre. -- Stuart Kelly Scotland on Sunday
A relentlessly tense and exciting read, every page oozes menace and its core of truth makes it all the more unsettling. Sunday Mirror
Deliciously shadowy. -- Claire Allfree Metro

Denise Mina is the bestselling author of the Garnethill trilogy, the Paddy Meehan series and the Alex Morrow series, as well as historical novels Rizzio, Three Fires and The Second Murderer, a Philip Marlowe novel for the Chandler estate. She has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award twice, the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year twice, the Gordon Burn Prize and was inducted into the Crime Writers' Association Hall of Fame in 2014. Denise also writes graphic novels and plays, and presents television and radio programmes. She studied law and forensic examination at Glasgow University and taught criminology and criminal law part-time at Strathclyde University. Denise lives and works in Glasgow. The Good Liar is her twentieth novel.

'A masterpiece by the woman who may be Britain's finest living crime novelist' Daily Telegraph 'Relentlessly tense and exciting' Sunday Mirror William Watt wants answers about his family's murder. Peter Manuel has them. But Peter Manuel is a liar. William Watt is an ordinary businessman, a fool, a social climber. Peter Manuel is a famous liar, a rapist, a criminal. He claims he can get hold of the gun used to murder Watt's family. One December night in 1957, Watt meets Manuel in a Glasgow bar to find out what he knows. Based on true events, The Long Drop is an extraordinarily unsettling, evocative and compelling novel from a writer at the height of her powers. 'The Long Drop is not just a success and a thrilling read in its own right, but a game-changer for the genre' Scotland on Sunday

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