A desperate young man becomes entangled with a Scottish crime family in this "brilliant, irresistible" novel from the author of The Wasp Factory (The New York Times).

Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth, Scotland. An estuary town north of Aberdeen, Stonemouth has a beach that can be beautiful on a sunny day. But on a bleak day, Stonemouth seems to have nothing to offer but fog, cheap drugs, and gangsters -- and a suspension bridge that promises a permanent way out.

Stewart got out five years ago. He didn't jump, he just ran -- escaping the Murstons, a local family of mobsters. But now their patriarch has died, and in an uneasy truce, Stewart has returned home for the funeral. His long exile has also kept him away from Ellie Murston, and if he knows what's good for him, he'll avoid a reunion -- and the topic of his old classmate Callum Murston's untimely death.

But once he's back, Stewart steps squarely into the minefield of his past, and as he wrestles with feelings of guilt and loss, he makes some dark discoveries and his homecoming takes a lethal turn. A quick drop into the cold, gray Stoun is starting to look like an option worth considering.

The basis for a BBC series, Stonemouth is a darkly witty, "beguiling" tale of warring clans, broken hearts, brotherhood, and the long, hard process of growing up -- if you can stay alive long enough to try (The Guardian).

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• Publication Date: October 9, 2012
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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• Print Length: 449 Pages
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