The Long Drop

Author Denise Mina
Narrator David Monteath
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 1 January 1970
Run Time 7 hours and 17 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction.

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Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Long Drop by Denise Mina, read by David Monteath.

William Watt wants answers about his family's murder. Peter Manuel has them. But Peter Manuel is a liar.

William Watt is an ordinary businessman, a fool, a social climber.

Peter Manuel is a famous liar, a rapist, a criminal. He claims he can get hold of the gun used to murder Watt's family.

One December night in 1957, Watt meets Manuel in a Glasgow bar to find out what he knows.

Based on true events, The Long Drop is an extraordinarily unsettling, evocative and compelling novel from a writer at the height of her powers.

Critics Review

Angry, vital and unputdownable, The Long Drop’s themes of self-deception resonate long after the final page. This is crime fiction at its very best

Joseph Knox, author of Sirens

Not a single word is wasted in this beautifully written novel. Unsettling, evocative and staggeringly good, it is possibly Mina’s finest achievement

Daily Express

A wonderfully atmospheric, unsettling read.

Deeply unsettling and thought provoking in all the best ways

Big Issue

The Long Drop is an exceptional book. The pages reek of fifties Glasgow, forming an oppressive backdrop to a true crime story that fascinates and appals from start to finish. Mina’s prose cuts to the bone, laying bare the prideful wickedness of men in a tale that is as often touching as it is frightening. A feast of a crime novel.

Stuart Neville

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