A gritty and poignant debut about a young working-class girl in 1979 Glasgow who happens upon the body of a murdered woman\u2014and must face an insular community desperate for answers, as well as herself.<\/b><\/p>\n
Glasgow, 1979: If it hadn\u2019t been for her wee stupid dog, Sid Vicious, twelve-year-old Janey Devine might never have stumbled upon the corpse of Samantha Watson. And then maybe she\u2019d still be able to sleep at night. And maybe her nana wouldn\u2019t be so worried all the time. And maybe Billy \u201cThe Ghost\u201d Watson, a notorious gangster, wouldn\u2019t be on her tail\u2014for it\u2019s Billy\u2019s daughter who was left for dead on those train tracks, and now Billy wants answers.<\/p>\n
Fear and gossip have spread through the tight-knit community of Possilpark, and while Janey swears she can\u2019t remember the details of that morning, the cops think she\u2019s hiding something\u2014and indeed, there\u2019s something she knows that she\u2019s not quite ready to tell anyone, not even her nana, who won\u2019t rest until this whole thing is behind them.<\/p>\n
Shot through with remarkable humor, Frances Crawford\u2019s stunning debut is a coming-of-age whodunit, an intimate portrait of a working-class neighborhood that weaves Janey\u2019s innocent candor and her nana\u2019s hard-earned wisdom into a sweeping tale of grief and survival that marks the arrival of a major new voice in crime fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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