Meantime: An absolutely gripping detective novel from one of Britain’s best known comedians

About this book

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Glasgow, 2015. Felix McAveety is a Valium addict whose life is already fraying when his best friend Marina is found murdered in a local park. He goes looking for answers, though the questions have a habit of slipping from his mind before he can hold them.

Felix gathers help from a strange and unstable circle: a brilliant but mercurial GP, a young trade unionist, a failing screenwriter, crime novelist Jane Pickford, and his crisis fuelled downstairs neighbour Donnie. Together, they are drawn into a bewildering investigation that moves through Scottish radical politics, artificial intelligence, cults, secret agents, smugglers and vegan record shops.

Set against the backdrop of post referendum Scotland, Meantime is a picaresque detective story about murder, revenge, and the blurred edges of personal and political loss.