The Hanging Shed: Volume 1 [Paperback] Ferris, Gordon

Glasgow, 1946. Douglas Brodie comes home from war to find his childhood friend hanging in an old railway workshop, death ruled a suicide. But Brodie knows better — and worse, the police aren't asking questions. So he starts digging himself, straight into the city's blackest corners: a world of slum landlords, bent cops, and men who got rich while others were dying in trenches. Gordon Ferris writes postwar noir with a Glaswegian bite — all moral rot and cigarette smoke, where justice is something you take into your own hands because the law's too corrupted to touch. Brodie's a detective in the classic mold: damaged, dogged, decent enough to be dangerous. If you're into Philip Kerr's Berlin mysteries or the grit of William McIlvanney, this is your next obsession.