Lou Perlman

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  www.campbellarmstrong.com/mcginty.php - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 3/15/2008  

  THE NOVELS featuring detective Lou Perlman are among the best-kept secrets in crime fiction.
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  Perlman, a detective with Strathclyde Police, has now found himself on extended "gardening leave", yet when a severed hand, neatly wrapped in a clear plastic bag, is discovered in his bedroom by his cleaning lady, what was once a professional interest in the criminal underworld becomes personal.
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  Yet the heart of this novel is the crumpled, beguiled figure of Perlman, retreating to his home to listen to jazz and ponder the dark occurrences of the night.This latest novel takes us deeper into the character as he struggles to discover the location of Miriam, the closest his heart has ever come to accepting love, and whose postcards are as brief as they are worryingly oblique.
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  If they haven't already done so they should meet Lou Perlman: they are sure to enjoy his company.

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  Lou Perlman is a Glasgow Jew who gets twitchy if he strays too far form his native city.
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  Perlman's a rumpled cop who's currently on sick leave after stopping a bullet in a previous book (this is the third in the series and on this evidence the other two are well worth searching out).But he's in disgrace after speaking up in court in favour of his sister-in-law Miriam, and won't be welcomed back with open arms.
  
  Miriam, meanwhile, has gone swanning off round Europe, leaving Lou uncertain as to where they stand romantically -- and he starts to worry when her postcards suddenly stop.His aunts are clucking around solicitously, and send over a cleaning lady to help him get his shambolic home into some sort of shape.
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  Lou's a wonderfully lugubrious character -- the kind you can imagine Ken Stott playing.
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  Lou Perlman doesn't do romance.He doesn't do authority.He definitely doesn't do housework.But he is in a class of his own.

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  'Concert Of Ghosts' Author Campbell Black Returns To... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/24/2005    Last Visited: 6/24/2005  

  Years later, Black is anxious to have San Francisco once again as a backdrop for another crime novel, whose main character Lou Perlman, is a Jewish detective from Glasgow, Scotland, and has appeared in three books so far; The Bad Fire, The Last Darkness and White Rage.
  
  "I'm just about finished with the fourth installment of the series," says Black, "and have another to write after that, and I thought, it's time for Lou to get out of Glasgow, and what better place to go than San Francisco?"
  
  Spending almost a week in his favorite US city, before he returns to Ireland, where he now resides, catching up with old friends and making atmospheric notes for his next Lou Perlman novel is the last trip of a hectic June schedule.Earlier this month, he was one of the leading crime fiction authors feted at the annual Crime Writer's Festival, held in Paris France.

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  Books by Campbell Armstrong at Allison and Busby - [Cached Version]
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  Detective Lou Perlman has become an outcast from police HQ, doomed by a sadistic Chief-Superintendent to a seemingly infinite 'sick-list'. Deprived of doing battle with Glasgow's criminal underworld - which he needs the way a junkie needs a fix - he's barred from participating in the inves...

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  Published on: 5/27/2003    Last Visited: 2/8/2004  

  Detective Lou Perlman, feels that this is not a suicide and is uneasy.Something about the corpse reminds him of his boyhood in the old Gorbals where he was born.

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  HarperCollins Publishers - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/4/2004    Last Visited: 2/16/2005  

  When a young Asian entrepreneur dies in a suspicious fall from his high-rise apartment and an Indian kindergarten teacher is gunned down in front of her class it's clear to Detective Sergeant Lou Perlman that he is dealing with racially motivated murder.
  
  The emergence of a group called White Rage and a growing sense of fear across the city of Glasgow mean that Perlman needs some answers quickly.
  
  At the same time, he needs to make sense of a crime that is closer to home - the mysterious shooting of his own brother Colin.Lou's conviction that the killing is connected to the underworld boss Leo Kilroy nags at his mind almost as much as his unspoken love for Colin's widow Miriam.
  
  And when Lou Perlman looks beneath the glittering new surface of the city in which he was born, he finds all sorts of ancient connections, some of them painful, some of them shocking, many of them disturbing.
  
  Reviews
  
  From the reviews of The Last Darkness:
  
  ‘Riveting … The Last Darkness is so atmospheric you really do lose your sense of time and place as you delve deeper into Perlman's world.The dialogue and tension are superbly crafted, and Perlman is a believable, well-rounded character.A terrific read.'

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  The Last Darkness from the Book Lover's Website - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/4/2002    Last Visited: 12/5/2002  

  In this city of icy pavements and Christmas street decorations battered by arctic winds, the body of a well-dressed man is found hanging from the girders of a railway bridge… Investigating the case is Lou Perlman, a detective whose idea of a good suit is anything that fits him.Perlman feels that this is no suicide, and that something about the corpse reminds him of his boyhood in the old Gorbals.Perlman is a man with secrets of his own and, as one death follows another, the hunt for the killer takes him into a territory of deceit and greed – a world of old allegiances that are lethal to reawaken.
  
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  The small publisher of big books - Allison and Busby - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/13/2008    Last Visited: 2/23/2009  

  Butcher is the fourth in the hugely successful series set in Glasgow and featuring the imnimitable Jewish Detective Lou Perlman, and follows from Bad Fire, The LastDarkness and White Rage.

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  The small publisher of big books - Allison and Busby - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/11/2006    Last Visited: 1/10/2008  

  Butcher is the fourth in the hugely successful series set in Glasgow and featuring the imnimitable Jewish Detective Lou Perlman, and follows from Bad Fire, The Last Darkness and White Rage.

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  Published on: 8/1/2003    Last Visited: 8/23/2003  

  CAMPBELL Armstrong brings us another riveting thriller set in the dark, seedy underworld of Glasgow, and the patch of Lou Perlman, a detective-sergeant in the city `polis'.

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