Butcher

Lou Perlman #3

by Campbell Armstrong

Detective-Sergeant Lou Perlman gets caught up in a gangland takeover in international bestselling author Campbell Armstrong’s electrifying thriller

After stepping on too many of his bosses’ toes in public, Detective-Sergeant Lou Perlman is put on “extended sick leave” against his will. He is banned from the investigation of the bloodbath that is shaking Glasgow’s criminal underworld, where a bizarre, seriously violent man named Reuben Chuck has seized control.
 
But a gruesome discovery in his own apartment launches Perlman back into the game. Soon a simple inquiry becomes fraught with danger and leads him into the terrain of Reuben Chuck.
 
Glasgow is once again a constant presence in Campbell Armstrong’s twisting storyline, in which one wrong turn down a dark alley could change a detective’s life forever.

Butcher is the 4th book in the Glasgow Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Genres: Crime

340 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

aka Thomas Altman, Campbell Black, Jeffrey Campbell (with Jeffrey Caine), Thomas Weldon

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Campbell Armstrong got a degree in philosophy before taking a position teaching creating writing. After his excellent series about counterterrorism expert Frank Pagan, Mr. Armstrong has written several compelling novels of crime and life in his native Glasgow.

Reviews

[Kevin Parker · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very very poor

[Diane Wallis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Listened to this on a long car journey to north-western New South Wales. I agree with everything in Sharon Wheeler's review at http://reviewingtheevidence.com/revie... but I was also fortunate to have the narrator James Bryce doing Glaswegian accents I could never imagine. A brilliant production that entertained me during 13 hours of driving.
Trawling through the Internet to find out current information about Campbell Armstrong, I learnt of his death in March of this year. What a tragedy but there are still two other Lou Perlman books I have yet to read/listen to. I don't yet have to draw a curtain on the gritty, brutal underbelly of Glasgow crime and the likeable authority-resistant detective, Lou
Perlman.

[henrys-axe · Rating 4 out of 5]

The third Lou Perlman installment is certainly a winner. There are some gruesome moments that might make a stomach churn but fortunately they are appropriately spaced throughout the narrative. The disheveled Sgt Perlman, on extended sick leave after being shot in the shoulder, continues to antagonize his superiors as well as some of his co-workers. Perlman's wry humor is as much a part of him as the zeal he displays to rid Glasgow of a few more criminal elements. The death of author Campbell Armstrong makes a fourth novel unlikely unless another author can pick up where Butcher ends. We can only hope.