The Second Cut
- 27 Jan 2022
- 9781838850869
- £14.99
- 384 pp
- 144×220mm
- 2 Feb 2023
- 9781838850890
- £9.99
- 384 pp
- 129×198mm
- 27 Jan 2022
- 9781838850876
- £7.99
- 384 pp
- 27 Jan 2022
- 9781838850883
- £25
- 9 hrs 58 min
In a few words
A stylish, atmospheric detective story with shades of the Gothic – from the author of the award-winning cult classic The Cutting Room
In a few words
A stylish, atmospheric detective story with shades of the Gothic – from the author of the award-winning cult classic The Cutting Room
In a few words
A stylish, atmospheric detective story with shades of the Gothic – from the author of the award-winning cult classic The Cutting Room
In a few words
A stylish, atmospheric detective story with shades of the Gothic – from the author of the award-winning cult classic The Cutting Room
I doubt I'll read a better book this year. Dark, funny and humane, Louise Welsh tells the stories that nobody else dares
Val Mcdermid
Complex and very atmospheric, with plenty of sardonic humour and sharp observations about injustice, like its predecessor this is a hardboiled gem
I doubt I'll read a better book this year. Dark, funny and humane, Louise Welsh tells the stories that nobody else dares
Val Mcdermid
Complex and very atmospheric, with plenty of sardonic humour and sharp observations about injustice, like its predecessor this is a hardboiled gem
I doubt I'll read a better book this year. Dark, funny and humane, Louise Welsh tells the stories that nobody else dares
Val Mcdermid
Complex and very atmospheric, with plenty of sardonic humour and sharp observations about injustice, like its predecessor this is a hardboiled gem
I doubt I'll read a better book this year. Dark, funny and humane, Louise Welsh tells the stories that nobody else dares
Val Mcdermid
Complex and very atmospheric, with plenty of sardonic humour and sharp observations about injustice, like its predecessor this is a hardboiled gem
More about
the book
THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR
SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE
‘I doubt I’ll read a better book this year’ Val McDermid
‘Compelling, immersive and brimming with life’ Graeme Macrae Burnet
Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a house clearance, life seems to be looking up. The next day Jojo washes up dead.
Jojo liked Grindr hook-ups and recreational drugs – is that the reason the police won’t investigate? And if Rilke doesn’t find out what happened to Jojo, who will?
Thrilling and atmospheric, The Second Cut delves into the dark side of twenty-first century Glasgow. Twenty years on from his appearance in The Cutting Room, Rilke is still walking a moral tightrope between good and bad, saint and sinner.
More about
the book
THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR
SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE
‘Superb’ The Times Crime Book of the Month
‘A hardboiled gem’ Guardian
‘I doubt I’ll read a better book this year’ Val McDermid
Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a house clearance, life seems to be looking up. The next day Jojo washes up dead.
Jojo liked Grindr hook-ups and recreational drugs – is that the reason the police won’t investigate? And if Rilke doesn’t find out what happened to Jojo, who will?
More about
the book
THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR
SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE
‘Superb’ The Times Crime Book of the Month
‘A hardboiled gem’ Guardian
‘I doubt I’ll read a better book this year’ Val McDermid
Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a house clearance, life seems to be looking up. The next day Jojo washes up dead.
Jojo liked Grindr hook-ups and recreational drugs – is that the reason the police won’t investigate? And if Rilke doesn’t find out what happened to Jojo, who will?
More about
the book
THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘I doubt I’ll read a better book this year’ Val McDermid
‘Compelling, immersive and brimming with life’ Graeme Macrae Burnet
Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a house clearance, life seems to be looking up. The next day Jojo washes up dead.
Jojo liked Grindr hook-ups and recreational drugs – is that the reason the police won’t investigate? And if Rilke doesn’t find out what happened to Jojo, who will?
Thrilling and atmospheric, The Second Cut delves into the dark side of twenty-first century Glasgow. Twenty years on from his appearance in The Cutting Room, Rilke is still walking a moral tightrope between good and bad, saint and sinner.
Well-wrought . . . The specificity and style of Welsh’s prose – peppered with such fine Scottish words as 'bawface', 'coorie' and 'shoogly' — the depth of her characterisation and depiction of place, her gallows humour and her compassion all make The Second Cut a superb piece of work
One of the most enjoyable mysteries I’ve read this year, The Second Cut had me from the word go. Rilke’s world feels rife with possibilities for dark doings – and Welsh’s writing is fresh, funny, fearless and fun
Joseph Knox
Superbly drawn and exquisitely written, the story moves at an exceptional pace: this is modern Glasgow at its most compelling with a contradictory
Richly layered, gloriously carnal, bursting with patter and irresistibly seductive
Chris Brookmyre
Rilke’s return is a treat: a dark, complex literary crime novel bursting with life. Louise Welsh’s band of outsiders and misfits are lovingly drawn, her Glasgow vibrant and gritty, the crimes she depicts terrifying and tragic
Paula Hawkins
Well-wrought . . . The specificity and style of Welsh’s prose – peppered with such fine Scottish words as 'bawface', 'coorie' and 'shoogly' — the depth of her characterisation and depiction of place, her gallows humour and her compassion all make The Second Cut a superb piece of work
One of the most enjoyable mysteries I’ve read this year, The Second Cut had me from the word go. Rilke’s world feels rife with possibilities for dark doings – and Welsh’s writing is fresh, funny, fearless and fun
Joseph Knox
Superbly drawn and exquisitely written, the story moves at an exceptional pace: this is modern Glasgow at its most compelling with a contradictory
Well-wrought . . . The specificity and style of Welsh’s prose – peppered with such fine Scottish words as 'bawface', 'coorie' and 'shoogly' — the depth of her characterisation and depiction of place, her gallows humour and her compassion all make The Second Cut a superb piece of work
One of the most enjoyable mysteries I’ve read this year, The Second Cut had me from the word go. Rilke’s world feels rife with possibilities for dark doings – and Welsh’s writing is fresh, funny, fearless and fun
Joseph Knox
Superbly drawn and exquisitely written, the story moves at an exceptional pace: this is modern Glasgow at its most compelling with a contradictory
Richly layered, gloriously carnal, bursting with patter and irresistibly seductive
Chris Brookmyre
Well-wrought . . . The specificity and style of Welsh’s prose – peppered with such fine Scottish words as 'bawface', 'coorie' and 'shoogly' — the depth of her characterisation and depiction of place, her gallows humour and her compassion all make The Second Cut a superb piece of work
One of the most enjoyable mysteries I’ve read this year, The Second Cut had me from the word go. Rilke’s world feels rife with possibilities for dark doings – and Welsh’s writing is fresh, funny, fearless and fun
Joseph Knox
Superbly drawn and exquisitely written, the story moves at an exceptional pace: this is modern Glasgow at its most compelling with a contradictory
Richly layered, gloriously carnal, bursting with patter and irresistibly seductive
Chris Brookmyre
Louise Welsh
View profileLouise Welsh is an award-winning author of eight novels. The Cutting Room, her debut novel, won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award and the Saltire First Book of The Year Award. In 2018, she was named the Most Inspiring Saltire First Book Award winner by public vote. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.
@louisewelsh00
Louise Welsh
View profileLouise Welsh is an award-winning author of nine novels. The Cutting Room, her debut novel, won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award and the Saltire First Book of The Year Award. In 2018, she was named the Most Inspiring Saltire First Book Award winner by public vote. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.
@louisewelsh00
Louise Welsh
View profileLouise Welsh is an award-winning author of nine novels. The Cutting Room, her debut novel, won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award and the Saltire First Book of The Year Award. In 2018, she was named the Most Inspiring Saltire First Book Award winner by public vote. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.
@louisewelsh00
Louise Welsh
View profileLouise Welsh is an award-winning author of eight novels. The Cutting Room, her debut novel, won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award and the Saltire First Book of The Year Award. In 2018, she was named the Most Inspiring Saltire First Book Award winner by public vote. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.
@louisewelsh00
