Yet another Hard Case Crime novel, and, like the Stephen King novel, this one is also has a contemporary setting. Not only that, but the contemporary setting is Edinburgh (and Kirkwall in the Orkneys)!
Joe is an enforcer for a dodgy Edinburgh loan shark. Are there any loan sharks who aren’t dodgy?
Anyway, everything changes when his daughter dies and then other tragedies befall him. Someone’s setting him up. What’s happening?
Very gritty. Very slick. Good fun.
I’m going to have to check out Guthrie’s other book – Two Way Split.
And just a thought. Guthrie’s not a pseudonymn is it?