Long Day Monday (U) (Ulverscroft Large Print Series) - Hardcover

Turnbull, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708931758 ISBN 13: 9780708931752

Publisher: Ulverscroft, 1994

Synopsis

'I salute Mr. Turnbull, his in-depth characters, narrative pace and pawky knowhow: a master.' - John Coleman, SUNDAY TIMES. When officers of Glasgow's P Division attend an abandoned vehicle deep in rural Lanarkshire, disturbed topsoil indicates that something far more sinister has also been abandoned. The fields begin to give up their dead, and forensic evidence indicates that the victims had all endured a period of captivity before being murdered. When the sudden disappearance of a young boy becomes linked to the murder inquiry, the police realize that a serial killer is at work and that they are racing against time...

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

The urban wastelands of industrial Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, are bared mercilessly once again in this latest potent procedural from the author of Fair Friday and Two Way Cut . Turnbull's compelling vision rivals the narrative firepower of John Harvey ( Rough Treatment ) and fellow Glaswegian William McIllvanney ( Strange Loyalties ). Twenty-five years separate the discoveries of two abandoned cars; each was carefully parked and a stuffed toy rabbit was found close by. The first came at the start of copper Ray Sussock's career, the second close to its end, when Sussock is punching the clock, waiting out his time on the force and rebounding from a painful divorce. But unbeknownst to Sussock, the two cars stand close to shallow graves, marking brutal child murders that represent only two of a serial killer's many crimes. In a brief tale suffused with suffering, Turnbull depicts the timid and battered wife of an eyewitness, the distraught mother of a missing boy, a starving child waiting for death and two prostitutes battling booze and heroin. While none of the police of Glasgow's P Division is a saint in the city, they are indelibly touched by the emotional and physical harshness of the terrain they traverse day by day. An outstanding series.
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From Kirkus Reviews:

Glasgow's police, P Division, are hard at work, grappling with two major new cases alongside the usual run of mean-streets crime. The body of Sandra Shapiro, at 20 an alcoholic prostitute, has been found buried at the edge of a farm, near the stolen car in which her body was probably transported. And ten-year-old Tim Moore is missing from his middle-class home. Initial investigation has produced no clue to his fate, but something found near the stolen car triggers the memory of a 25-year-old incident in the mind of veteran Sergeant Ray Sussock (Condition Purple, 1989, etc.). It raises the macabre specter of a quarter century of unsolved, perhaps unknown killings and heightens the urgency of finding Tim Moore before it's too late. How this is accomplished, using every tool of modern crime detection, makes for high-tension suspense--in a gritty story enhanced by sensitive insights into the lives of its heroes and victims. Another can't-put-it-down winner for Turnbull. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ulverscroft
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0708931758
• ISBN 13: 9780708931752
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320