Every Night I Dream of Hell

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LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON'S OLD PECULIAR CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016 "The plot is meticulous, the dialogue sharp, the emotions edgy. Mackay turns in another mesmeric performance" The Times Nate Colgan: a violent man; 'smart muscle' for the Jamieson organisation. Someone to be afraid of. But now, with its most powerful individuals either dead or behind bars, things within the Jamieson organisation are beginning to shift. When Nate, long working on the fringes of the business, is reluctantly appointed its new 'security consultant' - he can little imagine how things are about to unravel . . . It begins with an execution, a message; and soon the various factions within the organisation are sent into chaos. But out of the confusion comes one clear fact: a new group has arrived in Glasgow, and in their quest for power they are prepared to ignite a war. But who is behind the group? And why has the calculating Zara Cope - the mother of Nate's child - suddenly appeared back in town? Meanwhile DI Fisher, buoyed by his recent successes in finally jailing some of the city's most notorious criminals, is prowling on the edges of these latest battles, looking for his chance to strike - and before all hell breaks loose . . . PRAISE FOR MALCOLM MACKAY "Mackay's real achievement, and it is considerable, lies in the way he renders Glasgow gangland almost abstract: the language is spare, limpid; the dialogue is uninflected, almost devoid of idiom. It's a shock when, about 50 pages in, someone finally swears. Can this really be Glasgow? And yet this gives the books their power and a kind of existential force" Irish Times "This is Malcolm Mackay's fifth novel and if you like your crime fiction boiled to within an inch of its life, this morally complex, twisty-turny tale won't disappoint" Irish Examiner

Malcolm Mackay was born and grew up in Stornoway where he still lives. His much-lauded Glasgow-set novels have won the Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read Award and the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award and have been shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award and the Scottish First Book of the Year Award. Every Night I Dream of Hell is Malcolm Mackay's fifth novel.

The plot is meticulous, the dialogue sharp, the emotions edgy. Mackay turns in another mesmeric performance -- Marcel Berlins * The Times * Mackay's real achievement, and it is considerable, lies in the way he renders Glasgow gangland almost abstract: the language is spare, limpid; the dialogue is uninflected, almost devoid of idiom. It's a shock when, about 50 pages in, someone finally swears. Can this really be Glasgow? And yet this gives the books their power and a kind of existential force * Irish Times *