Synopses & Reviews
PRAISE FOR
HARD MAN "Nastily funny . . . character-driven and exciting . . .A profane and shockingly violent book."Cleveland Plain Dealer "Like a Buster Keaton movie with bloodshed . . . Guthrie is such a witty and inventive stylist."Washington Post Book World
PRAISE FOR ALLAN GUTHRIE "Allan Guthrie is a bare-knuckle storyteller with a twinkle in his eye and a knife in his boot."--Sean Doolittle, author of The Clean-Up " ... among contemporary crime writers, he has few peers." Megan Abbott, Edgar, Barry and Anthony nominated author of The Song Is You "The man is the king of Tartan Noir and I'll cut anyone who says different."Ray Banks, author of Saturdays Child
Review
PRAISE FOR
HARD MAN “Like a Buster Keaton movie with bloodshed . . . Guthrie is such a witty and inventive stylist.”—The Washington Post Book World
"An Edinburgh festival of lip-smacking gruesomeness and black comedy, where every light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.”—Val McDermid, author of The Grave Tattoo
Synopsis
How much blood would you spill to avenge those you love?
Andy Park passes out at the sight of blood, but he thinks hes discovered a way to make his familys enemies pay. He isnt prepared for the fallout, though, when his teenage son is put in mortal danger and his daughter and her fiancé are forced to carry out his dirty work.
And yet Parks world is peachy in comparison to Tommy Savages. A masked man known only as Mr. Smith is blackmailing Savagefor what, he has no idea. And after an attempt to gain the upper hand has near-fatal results, Tommy and his brother, Phil, find themselves heading to a graveyard with only a couple of swords and a bag of cash for company.
Will they survive the night?
Will anyone?
With equal parts blood phobia and blood lust, Allan Guthries Savage Night unfolds over six short blood-blind hours in Scotlands capital city.
About the Author
ALLAN GUTHRIE is the author of Two-Way Split, which was nominated for the British Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger and received the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award; Kiss Her Goodbye, which was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, and Gumshoe awards; and Savage Night. He lives in Scotland.