Laidlaw

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trying to find the murderer of an apparently innocent girl. is such a memorable character who requires to be looked at and examined closely.
Jack is a universe apart from other examples of detectives , he examines the more intriguing issues of how and why people can commit the reprehensible crime of murder and the harrowing aftermath of crime and violence. Jack can deeply understand people more than anyone could ever imagine.
Jack is an odd sort detective, and this is an odd sort of novel. He lives and works in the gloomy, cheerless heart of urban Glasgow; and he keeps the works of "Camus"," Unamuno" and "Kierkegaard"in his top desk drawer, "where other detectives would normally rather keep their secret stashes of liquor." Unlike many other detectives with uppity tastes in literature, no one congratulates him for this or encourages him in any way; the whole world tells him that he thinks too much to be a good detective . However, he persists in trying to understand crimes as ...

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indifference to everybody else but them."
is unusually dense and evocative, and the character of is true to life and horrifyingly believable.
Laidlaw's life would revolve around his desk , he is very sceptical and curious about his future and about his life and what he has achieved , he was constantly thinking about it , one day he had a bleak view ;
"When the mood seeped into him ,nothing mattered. He could think of no imaginable success , no way of happiness in life , no dreams of wishes that could ever satisfy."
Laidlaw's character and the way he thinks could have been moulded and created by his childhood and how devastating it was to his mentality ;
"Even when he was a ...

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