Jack Laidlaw · Book 4
The Dark Remains
- Published
- 2 September 2021
- Pages
- 322
- ISBN-13
- 9781609457198
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Dark Remains was left roughly a third-finished in handwritten manuscript at William McIlvanney's death in 2015, and completed and published by Ian Rankin in 2021 at 322 pages. It's set chronologically before Laidlaw, hence its 0.5 ordinal in the reading order, even though it was the last of the four Jack Laidlaw books to reach print, following Strange Loyalties into publication.
Its place in Jack Laidlaw
The Dark Remains is book 4 in the Jack Laidlaw series. It follows Strange Loyalties. See the full Jack Laidlaw reading order.
Jack Laidlaw is a Glasgow detective who reads Camus and Kierkegaard between interrogations, drinks in the city's roughest pubs to stay fluent in its underworld, and treats every case as a moral argument he's obliged to have with himself as much as with the criminals he's chasing. William McIlvanney introduced him in Laidlaw (1977), a novel now widely credited as the founding text of Tartan Noir -- the harder, more socially and psychologically serious strain of Scottish crime writing that later produced Ian…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781609457198