A decent, harried young banker travels north to Scotland and his mysteriously troubled sister. A single mother struggles to make a home for her family in a society she only vaguely comprehends. A baby girl is abandoned in a bus station and picked up by a stranger. A caller leaves threatening messages.
Brilliantly structured and tense, Criminals shows how the best intentions can have the worst results - and how families pull together, form themselves anew, and, occasionally, tear themselves apart.
'A stunning tour de force, suspenseful, beautifully observed...a wonderfully ironic meditation on the marriage of seemingly random trajectories known as fate...a great read and a literary pleasure' Jayne Anne Phillips
'One of the strongest and subtlest voices in Scottish fiction' Glasgow Herald
'Extremely compelling...superbly crafted' Time Out
