My rating: 5 of 5 stars
A simply wonderful discovery. 'The Hanging Shed' is set in the west of Scotland just after WW2, and features Douglas Brodie, a reporter/ex-policeman newly returned from the war. In this book he gets involved in an attempt to save an old friend from the gallows, bringing him into conflict with just about everyone possible - gangs, the police, the judiciary, the church, even.
The characters are interesting without being massively developed, but it doesn't matter in the slightest because the story is just such a good one. What Ferris is very good at is conveying the atmosphere of a city (Glasgow) as well as a town (Kilmarnock) and country areas, too.
This author has me hooked as much as Rankin's Rebus. There are two more Brodie novels at least - yummy.
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