July 1973. The Glasgow drugs trade is booming and Bobby March, the city’s own rock-star hero, has just overdosed in a central hotel. Alice Kelly is 13 years old, lonely. And missing. Meanwhile the niece of McCoy’s boss has fallen in with a bad crowd and when she goes AWOL, McCoy is asked – off the books – to find her. McCoy has a hunch. But does he have enough time?
Bobby March Will Live Forever
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Black Thorn
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370pp
Black Thorn
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Alan Parks Black Thorn FFP|FH Paperback 2021
Even better than its predecessors . . . Its plot twists and turns, provoking laughter and tears . . . Fascinating and dangerous . . . Parks has clearly studied the masters of tartan noir but has his own voice. He shows how, among the welter of violence, a spontaneous act of kindness can have just as great an impact
The Times, Book of the Month
Addictive reading
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Draws the reader in with equal parts of twist and grit . . . It’s McCoy, though, who makes this series something special – he’s multi-layered and three-dimensional, with his own idiosyncratic work ethic . . . With this third instalment of the McCoy books, Parks has continued to build a series that no crime fan should miss: dangerous, thrilling, but with a kind voice to cut through the darkness
Scotsman
Alan Parks has swiftly established himself as an exciting new voice in the world of tartan noir . . . Parks knows the city intimately, and this comes across effortlessly on the page
Scotland on Sunday
Parks captures the feel of a city long vanished in a breathless and tense retro crime caper
The Sun
This piece of tartan noir, with its twisting, turning plot, is full of fun period detail
The Times, Best Books of 2020
The morally ambiguous, deeply flawed McCoy makes an ideal antihero
Publishers Weekly
PRAISE FOR BLOODY JANUARY: An old-school cop novel written with wit and economy . . . Think McIlvanney or Get Carter
IAN RANKIN
A potent tale of death . . . Alan Parks's excellent first novel propels him into the top class of Scottish noir authors . . . Detective Harry McCoy . . . is so noir that he makes most other Scottish cops seem light grey
The Times, Book of the Month
1970s Glasgow hewn from flesh and drawn in blood
PETER MAY