Edge of the Grave

Critics Review

• I’ve been waiting years to read a truly gripping historical crime novel set in Glasgow. That wait is over. Edge of the Grave is astounding. Tense, absorbing and dripping with gallus Glasgow humour, this book is absolutely wonderful

  Abir Mukherjee, bestselling author of the Wyndham & Banerjee series

• A mesmerizing debut – raw, brutally violent but immensely human. Early gangland Glasgow with the gloss razored off

  Peter James, number one bestselling author of the DS Roy Grace series

• A magnificent and enthralling portrait of a dark and dangerous city and the men and women who live and die in it. I can’t wait to spend some more time with Jimmy Dreghorn and Archie McDaid. Robbie Morrison has produced an astounding debut

  Mark Billingham

• Robbie Morrison serves up a delicious slice of 30s gangster noir set in the grim and greasy, sodden and savage streets of Glasgow when it was the Empire’s Second City. Peaky Blinders meets William McIlvanney in this rollocking riveting read

  Adrian McKinty, bestselling author of The Chain

• A Glaswegian version of Peaky Blinders, with razor gangs brawling in the street and festering family secrets . . . it’s a dark and powerful story

  Sunday Times

• A hugely impressive debut

  Evening Standard

• Wonderfully gritty, violent and nasty in all the right ways

  James Oswald, bestselling author of the Inspector McLean series

• The atmosphere Morrison conjures is so captivating it’s hard to believe this is his debut crime novel . . . You should grab Edge of the Grave at the soonest opportunity. This is without doubt the most evocative and engaging Scottish crime novel we’ve come across in a very long time

  Crime Fiction Lover

• Brilliant

  The Times

• Meticulously researched and dripping with violence, written with brutal panache

  Mary Paulson-Ellis, author of Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year, The Other Mrs Walker

• Sharp and lethal as a cut-throat razor. Deeply researched, with strong characterisation and a fluent narrative, Robbie Morrison’s first novel is a book to savour

  John Harvey, bestselling author of the Charlie Resnick novels

• 1930s Glasgow portrayed in all its ragged glory

  Alan Parks

• Robbie Morrison really is a breath of fresh creative air in crime fiction. Edge of the Grave is a stunning debut: razor sharp prose and a superbly crafted sense of place and time. A great Glaswegian page-turner: I could smell the smog and feel the grit throughout

  Craig Russell, author of the LENNOX series

• The dark heart of 1930s gangland Glasgow is brought back to vivid, violent life in Robbie Morrison’s brilliant first novel. Fast moving and evocative, the prose cuts like a razor, straight through to the heart

  Martyn Waites

• Fantastic historical crime thriller set in 1930s Glasgow with a great detective duo and loads of brilliant period detail — poverty, wealth, gangs, religion and so much more

  Amer Anwar

• Powerful and moving . . . Morrison’s portrait of Glasgow and its denizens – both the vicious and the virtuous – is superb

  Literary Review

• This deftly plotted novel is a more than worthy successor to William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw novels: the title is a homage to them. I am very glad that this book is the first in a projected series

  Historical Novel Society

• A highly evocative novel with a strong sense of place and Morrison brings to dark life this time period in an engaging and mesmerizing way. As Morrison grows with each novel, he will indeed be a force to be reckoned with

  Crimesquad.com

• An historical tour de force along with a brilliant plot

  Globe and Mail