Book event · Past event
Milngavie Library Talks: An Evening with Simon McLean
Thursday 27 August 2026, 6pm – 7pm
Speakers
Simon McLean
As part of Milngavie Library's Library Talks series, former Strathclyde murder squad and undercover detective Simon McLean talked about his debut crime novel, Kintyre: The Past Doesn't Forget. In it, a retired detective returns to a case that was never properly investigated, and the trail leads him into organised crime and the people meant to stop it.
Simon also spoke about his memoir, The Ten Percent, his work with Tartan Tales Media, and his long-standing interest in justice, policing, true crime and Scottish crime fiction.
Books
Kintyre
Simon McLean
Simon's debut Eddie Weir thriller, in which a retired detective is drawn back to a case that was never properly investigated, and finds that what went wrong was a deliberate choice rather than a mistake. It is a story of organised crime operating across Scotland, the UK and Ireland, alongside the people trusted to stop it.
Buy Kintyre →The Ten Percent
Simon McLean
A frank memoir of Simon's decades on the front line and undercover, written with bluntness and dark humour, about how decisions really get made inside the system and what they mean for victims, families and communities long after the news moves on.
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