Born & bred Glaswegian writer Liam Leddy is best known for his 60s era Glasgow crime fiction Lassiter novels. The Lassiter Series & short stories.Bad Judgement.
I write twist & turn thrillers and short stories set in Glasgow’s 1960s Ganglands, I use #Scots and Glasgow street slang because that is how people spoke. I know because I was there. Try one of my stories or novels & take a trip to #AuldGlasgowToon!
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Real hardboiled Glasgow crime fiction - novels & short story collections. Meet Lassiter, Horner & Hagan in Body Language, Bad Form & Body Art. Characters so realistically drawn you will feel you know them.
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If you love Glasgow, & you love a thriller, then you’ll ❤️ my books.
Steeped in real life & based on my memories, I write novels & short stories set in 1960s Ganglands. Try one today & take a trip to #AuldGlasgowToon!
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I can’t play a single musical instrument but I have always loved music. In writing my crime fiction novels I draw on the music of my late teens to write stories set in the 60s. The era is just as important as the setting to me!
👉 Body Language (Lassiter Series Book 1)
Today's 'Muirhead Monday' finds us amongst the heat, noise, smoke, and hammering of the Smiths' Shop at the old Fairfield Shipyard.
Today, the Govan yard still builds ships as BAE Systems.
Pic: 'Glasgow - Fifty Drawings' by Muirhead Bone (1911)
Treat yourself to a thrilling read this weekend. Set in 1960s Glasgow, brimming with twist & turns, cracking banter and gangsters: I’ve got 4 standalone novels & a dozen short story.
Available to download now on Amazon, Lulu, payhip, Kobo.
Try one today!
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I’ve written 14 short stories, all available on Amazon so if you just want a quick yarn for this evening, why not pop over to Amazon?
All in my signature style, twists, turns & #Glasgow at the heart.
This beautiful relief sculpture can be found above the door of the former Queen's Assembly Rooms on La Belle Place in the West End of Glasgow. It features the 5-stringed lyre of Linus of Thrace, who is credited as the inventor of melody, rhythm and lyric song.
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Great thing about eBooks is that you don’t have have to wait for a book to finally make its way to you, you don’t have to live in Scotland to buy Scottish books! I’m so grateful to my international readers - a lot of #Scottishdiaspora who want to dip back into Glasgow!
Wind & rain - perfect for reading. Why not download one of my thrilling novels set in 1969s Glasgow Ganglands now? All the twists & turns to keep the pages turning until the weather blows over!
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Treat yourself to a thrilling read this weekend. Set in 1960s Glasgow, brimming with twist & turns, cracking banter and gangsters: I’ve got 4 standalone novels & a dozen short story.
Available to download now on Amazon, Lulu, payhip, Kobo.
Try one today!
🧠 Rooted in real life memories
🌃 Set in Glasgow
🕵️ Crime fiction short stories
📖 Page-turning thrillers
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All four of my stand-alone thriller novels featuring investigative journalist Lassiter is set in 1960s #Glasgow - twists, turns, gangsters! Fancy an exciting read? - download one today:
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The root of the stigma attached to the Scots language boils down to classism.
It's penalised because it's the common breath of Scotland.
Middle classes abandoned the language and embraced English.
Leaving the working class in Scotland with a voice deemed 'slang'.
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