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Once Upon A Time In Glasgow
Glasgow. Blink and it owns you.
For middle-aged detective Liam Keenan, the problems are stacking up. He’s put twenty years into a job he never wanted. His on-off girlfriend has left him for her husband. Criminals across the East End are dropping dead. And Liam has broken the golden rule, never fall for a suspect. Especially not one who has an idea how to put her hands on three million pounds in cash.
Peter Buana works for a local crime boss. He has a plan to set himself up for life, if he can make it through the night alive.
Vicky Kaprantza has the same plan, but is less worried about whether Peter can make it through the night, and more focused on whether she can get Liam to go along with her scheme.
Ellie Raymond has a whole other load of problems, and mostly just needs her father to stop killing people.
Through it all, everybody is asking the same two questions. What lines are they willing to cross for three million pounds? Is it ever too late to change your life and start again?
Once Upon a Time in Glasgow is a funny and tense thriller about growing old and doing crime.
For middle-aged detective Liam Keenan, the problems are stacking up. He’s put twenty years into a job he never wanted. His on-off girlfriend has left him for her husband. Criminals across the East End are dropping dead. And Liam has broken the golden rule, never fall for a suspect. Especially not one who has an idea how to put her hands on three million pounds in cash.
Peter Buana works for a local crime boss. He has a plan to set himself up for life, if he can make it through the night alive.
Vicky Kaprantza has the same plan, but is less worried about whether Peter can make it through the night, and more focused on whether she can get Liam to go along with her scheme.
Ellie Raymond has a whole other load of problems, and mostly just needs her father to stop killing people.
Through it all, everybody is asking the same two questions. What lines are they willing to cross for three million pounds? Is it ever too late to change your life and start again?
Once Upon a Time in Glasgow is a funny and tense thriller about growing old and doing crime.
281 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 17, 2026
About the author
Jay Stringer
32 books130 followersJay Stringer was born in 1980, and he’s not dead yet.
He’s English by birth and Scottish by rumour; born in the Black Country, and claiming Glasgow as his hometown.
Jay is dyslexic, and came to the written word as a second language, via comic books, music, and comedy. He writes hard boiled crime stories, dark comedies, and social fiction.
His first three books, the Eoin Miller Trilogy explored the political and criminal landscape of the West Midlands.
He now writes books set in Glasgow and New York.
Jay won a gold medal in the Antwerp Olympics of 1920. He did not compete in the Helsinki Olympics of 1952, that was some other guy.
Jay is represented by Stacia Decker at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner.
He’s English by birth and Scottish by rumour; born in the Black Country, and claiming Glasgow as his hometown.
Jay is dyslexic, and came to the written word as a second language, via comic books, music, and comedy. He writes hard boiled crime stories, dark comedies, and social fiction.
His first three books, the Eoin Miller Trilogy explored the political and criminal landscape of the West Midlands.
He now writes books set in Glasgow and New York.
Jay won a gold medal in the Antwerp Olympics of 1920. He did not compete in the Helsinki Olympics of 1952, that was some other guy.
Jay is represented by Stacia Decker at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner.
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