Alan Parks Boeken

McCoy has twenty-four hours to find two kidnapped boys before they turn up dead in Glasgow's city centre, in this fifth dark and gritty Harry McCoy thriller

In a grimy flat in Glasgow, a homemade bomb explodes, leaving few remains to identify its maker. Detective Harry McCoy knows in his gut that there'll be more to follow. The hunt for a missing sailor from the local US naval base leads him to the secretive group behind the bomb, and their disturbing, dominating leader. If the city is to survive the next explosion, it'll take everything McCoy's got..

The papers want blood. The force wants results. The law must be served, whatever the cost. August 1973. The Glasgow drugs trade is booming and Bobby March, the city's own rock-star hero, has just OD'ed in a central hotel. Alice Winters is twelve 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?

"1973's Bloody January was bad enough for Detective Harry McCoy: it's a miracle he lived to tell the tale. But three weeks on, the waters of Glasgow corruption seem to be creeping up around his feet once again. With one gang lord dead, the brokers of Glasgow vice are competing for control. Which means violence is coming. And it doesn't help that Cooper, McCoy's oldest friend, is one of the contenders in the new power vacuum. Then a case lands on his desk that would turn anyone's stomach. Murdered corpses are being found in abandoned buildings around the city, macabre messages carved onto their bare flesh. Just another dark day for Detective Harry McCoy."--Provided by publisher.

The first in a new series of crime novels from debut author Alan Parks, the next dark and exciting voice in Scottish noir

A woman enters a Glasgow police station to report her son missing, but no record can be found of the boy. When Detective Harry McCoy, seconded from the cop shop across town, discovers the family is part of the cultish Church of Christ's Suffering, he suspects there is more to Michael's disappearance than meets the eye. Meanwhile reports arrive of a string of poisonings of down-and-outs across the city. The dead are men who few barely notice, let alone care about - but, as McCoy is painfully aware, among this desperate community is his own father. Even as McCoy searches for the missing boy, he must conceal from his colleagues the real reason for his presence - to investigate corruption in the station. Some folk pray for justice. Detective Harry McCoy hasn't got time to wait.

Glasgow im Juli 1973. Die Stadt leidet unter einer Hitzewelle. Der Drogenhandel boomt. Eines seiner prominentesten Opfer ist Bobby March, der berühmteste Rockstar der Metropole, der mit einer Überdosis tot in einem Hotel gefunden wird. Detective Harry McCoy hat kaum die Ermittlungen aufgenommen, da soll er nebenbei die halbwüchsige Nichte seines Chefs finden , die ihr gutbürgerliches Elternhaus verlassen hat und in der Unterwelt Glasgows abgetaucht ist. Zu allem Überfluss verschwindet ein weiteres junges Mädchen spurlos. Die Stimmung kippt. Die Menschen wollen einen Schuldigen. Doch wie soll McCoy diesen finden, wenn es keine Unschuldigen gibt?