In a helter-skelter tale - winding from moneyed elite to hipster music groupies to the brutal gangs of the urban wasteland - Bloody January brings to life the dark underbelly of s Glasgow and establishes Alan Parks as a new and exciting voice in Scottish noir/5(). Bloody January by Alan Parks follows Glasgow detective Harry McCoy as he tries to solve crimes in January Parks is summoned to a nearby prison to meet with an aging gangster he does know not and is given an order to protect a young woman. The violent gangster is spare with details and sends Parks on his way with more questions than answers/5. Alan Parks has worked in the music industry for over twenty years. His debut novel Bloody January was shortlisted for the Grand Prix de Litteacute;rature Policiegrave;re. His second novel February's Son was shortlisted for the Edgar Awards. He lives and works in Glasgow. Bobby March Will Live Forever is the third Harry McCoy thriller/5().
Alan Parks's "Bloody January" is set in Glasgow during the s. The novel opens to a freezing cold and snowy January in , where a killer is determined to increase his body count. The young man just shot a young woman walking down a bustling street in Glasgow and does seem to have any remorse as he turns and commits suicide by. Bloody January by Alan Parks takes readers back to Glasgow, where bribery and corruption is practically expected and morality and ethics only just entering the culture of the police force. When a teenage boy shoots a young woman dead in the middle of a busy Glasgow street and then commits suicide, Detective Harry McCoy is sure of one thing. Bloody January is the first book in the Harry McCoy series by British author, Alan Parks. It's January , and thirty-year-old Harry McCoy is a detective with the Glasgow Police Force. Later, they'll call it Bloody January, but on the first, it's a visit to the jail for a (rather vague) tip-off to a killing.
BLOODY JANUARY. by Alan Parks ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ma. A gritty Glasgow detective enlists the dregs of the underworld in his one-man war against an untouchably wealthy family. A punchy prologue recalls the month in when there were six murders in the city. The story opens on Jan. 1, when detective Harry McCoy, trolling the lowlife informants on his beat, gets a tip that a waitress named Lorna will be killed the next day. Parks’ debut novel, Bloody January, propelled him onto the international literary crime fiction circuit and won him praise, prizes, and success with readers. The second book in the Harry McCoy series, February’s Son, was a finalist for a MWA Edgar Award. In a helter-skelter tale - winding from moneyed elite to hipster music groupies to the brutal gangs of the urban wasteland - Bloody January brings to life the dark underbelly of s Glasgow and establishes Alan Parks as a new and exciting voice in Scottish noir.
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