#1 Duncan McCormack

The Quaker

Liam McIlvanney
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The Quaker is watching you… It is 1969 and Glasgow has been brought to its knees by a serial killer spreading fear throughout the city. The Quaker has taken three women from the same nightclub and brutally murdered them in the backstreets. A detective with everything to prove.Now, six months later, the police are left chasing a ghost, with no new leads and no hope of catching their prey. They call in DI McCormack, a talented young detective from the Highlands. But his arrival is met with anger from a group of officers on the brink of despair. A killer who hunts in the shadows.Soon another woman is found murdered in a run-down tenement flat. And McCormack follows a trail of secrets that will change the city – and his life – forever…
Genres: MysteryCrimeFictionHistorical FictionScotlandThrillerAudiobookHistoricalMystery ThrillerLGBT
389 Pages

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