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The Long Drop
- Author
- Denise Mina
- Narrator
- David Monteath
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 2 March 2017
- Run Time
- 7 hours 17 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Historical crime and mysteries, Thriller / suspense fiction, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
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
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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
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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
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A wonderfully atmospheric, unsettling read.
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Deeply unsettling and thought provoking in all the best ways
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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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The Long Drop is a fascinating, quietly insidious work, unsettling but absorbing
The Times
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It is a beautifully written book, a masterpiece by the woman who may be Britain’s finest living crime novelist
Daily Telegraph
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The Long Drop is not just a success and a thrilling read in its own right, but a game-changer for the genre.
Scotland on Sunday
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A relentlessly tense and exciting read, every page oozes menace and its core of truth makes it all the more unsettling.
Sunday Mirror
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Deliciously shadowy.
Metro
User Reviews
Book 4.0
Narration 5.0
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4.0 5.0
I found this a fascinating tale... A murderer and the man who was husband, father and brother-in-law to 3 of his victims on an evening pub crawl through Glasgow, sounds an unlikely scenario but this actually happened. Peter Manuel who became a bogey man figure for 50s Glasgow and William Watt toured the drinking establishments of the city, trying to avoid various elements of the city's underworld and getting drinker and drinker as Watt tried to find out what had happened to the gun used to shoot his family. The writing is gripping, and the depiction of Glasgow is evocative. The narration was excellent.
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Details
- Author
- Denise Mina
- Narrator
- David Monteath
- Duration
- 7 hours 17 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 March 2017
- ISBN
- 9781473548206
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Historical crime and mysteries, Thriller / suspense fiction, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
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.
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