«There is a sense of moral growth in A Gift from Nessus that lifts it out of the ordinary . . . almost frighteningly truthful and moving»

* The Times *

«McIlvanney is a compassionate writer and leaves an impression both of high seriousness and great charm»

* Sunday Telegraph *

«William McIlvanney paints a world of harsh reality, but does so in language that is strangely beautiful and hauntingly poetic»

Craig Russell

William McIlvanney's first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association. Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize. He died in December 2015.