Malcolm Mackay’s acclaimed debut series, the Glasgow Trilogy, has been nominated for countless international prizes. The first of the series, The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter, was short-listed for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger and the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and long-listed for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. The second, How a Gunman Says Goodbye, was named the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year. Mackay was born in Stornoway on Scotland’s Isle of Lewis, where he still lives.