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A motorist's error leads to the discovery of a decomposed headless and handless corpse in the garden of a house in a prestigious Glasgow suburb. For Glasgow's P Division, the first task is to identify the body – an identification which reveals a person with a talent for making enemies. Then there is another killing – a murderous stabbing in an east-end housing scheme – and the police investigation takes on an added urgency. The whiff of corruption is in the air, and soon they are show more unravelling a thirty-year-old fraud of massive proportions, which, if made public, would shake the city to its very foundations. ‘Turnbull's Glasgow is a lovely slice of violent life’EVENING STANDARD ‘I can think of no other writer who so vividly captures the atmosphere of hopeless urban menace’THE TIMES show lessTags
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I found this difficult to read. I’d read a few pages and put it down. The only reason I persisted to the end is that my friend considers this novel “one of the BEST murder/mystery thriller books I've ever read”. One of us is right.
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- Canonical title
- The Killing Floor
- Original publication date
- 1994
- People/Characters
- Ray Sussock; Fabian Donoghue; Malcom Montgomerie; Richard King
- Important places
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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- Popularity
- 615,928
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.42)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 8
