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    May God Forgive
    The April Dead
    Ebook series2 titles

    Harry McCoy Series

    By Alan Parks

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    About this series

    FINALIST FOR THE 2022 MCILVANNEY PRIZE

    Detective Harry McCoy returns in the suspenseful, atmospheric fifth instalment in Alan Park’s internationally bestselling thriller series.

    Glasgow is a city in mourning. An arson attack on a hairdresser’s has left five dead. Tempers are frayed and sentiments running high.

    When three youths are charged the city goes wild. A crowd gathers outside the courthouse but as the police drive the young men to prison, the van is rammed by a truck, and the men are grabbed and bundled into a car. The next day, the body of one of them is dumped in the city centre. A note has been sent to the newspaper: one down, two to go.

    Detective Harry McCoy has twenty-four hours to find the kidnapped boys before they all turn up dead, and it is going to mean taking down some of Glasgow’s most powerful people to do it.

    “A series that no crime fan should miss: dangerous, thrilling, but with a kind voice to cut through the darkness.”—Scotsman

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWorld Noir
    Release dateFeb 19, 2019
    May God Forgive
    The April Dead

    Titles in the series (2)

    • 4

      The April Dead
      The April Dead

      The April Dead

      Alan Parks
      5/5 - 1 rating
      5/5 - 1 rating

      TARGET CONSUMER Readers of the Harry McCoy Thrillers Readers of first-rate mysteries, hardboiled, procedural, noir thrillers Fans of Tartan Noir For readers of Philip Kerr, Don Winslow, Mick Herron, Henry Chang, Cara Black, Ian Rankin, Val McDermid Literary, stylish, character-driven, plot-heavy, often humorous, always hardboiled crime writing from a new master of the genre KEY SELLING POINTS 4th book in a successful, seamless crime series, best-selling in UK, potential to be met in US Book 2 in the series shortlisted for an Edgar Awards. Fast paced thriller set in Glasgow, unputdownable action, and absorbing plot Solid author sales track Rights sold to over 10 counties

      TARGET CONSUMER Readers of the Harry McCoy Thrillers Readers of first-rate mysteries, hardboiled, procedural, noir thrillers Fans of Tartan Noir For readers of Philip Kerr, Don Winslow, Mick Herron, Henry Chang, Cara Black, Ian Rankin, Val McDermid Literary, stylish, character-driven, plot-heavy, often humorous, always hardboiled crime writing from a new master of the genre KEY SELLING POINTS 4th book in a successful, seamless crime series, best-selling in UK, potential to be met in US Book 2 in the series shortlisted for an Edgar Awards. Fast paced thriller set in Glasgow, unputdownable action, and absorbing plot Solid author sales track Rights sold to over 10 counties

    • 5

      May God Forgive
      May God Forgive

      May God Forgive

      Alan Parks
      5/5 - 1 rating
      5/5 - 1 rating

      FINALIST FOR THE 2022 MCILVANNEY PRIZE Detective Harry McCoy returns in the suspenseful, atmospheric fifth instalment in Alan Park’s internationally bestselling thriller series. Glasgow is a city in mourning. An arson attack on a hairdresser’s has left five dead. Tempers are frayed and sentiments running high. When three youths are charged the city goes wild. A crowd gathers outside the courthouse but as the police drive the young men to prison, the van is rammed by a truck, and the men are grabbed and bundled into a car. The next day, the body of one of them is dumped in the city centre. A note has been sent to the newspaper: one down, two to go. Detective Harry McCoy has twenty-four hours to find the kidnapped boys before they all turn up dead, and it is going to mean taking down some of Glasgow’s most powerful people to do it. “A series that no crime fan should miss: dangerous, thrilling, but with a kind voice to cut through the darkness.”—Scotsman

      FINALIST FOR THE 2022 MCILVANNEY PRIZE Detective Harry McCoy returns in the suspenseful, atmospheric fifth instalment in Alan Park’s internationally bestselling thriller series. Glasgow is a city in mourning. An arson attack on a hairdresser’s has left five dead. Tempers are frayed and sentiments running high. When three youths are charged the city goes wild. A crowd gathers outside the courthouse but as the police drive the young men to prison, the van is rammed by a truck, and the men are grabbed and bundled into a car. The next day, the body of one of them is dumped in the city centre. A note has been sent to the newspaper: one down, two to go. Detective Harry McCoy has twenty-four hours to find the kidnapped boys before they all turn up dead, and it is going to mean taking down some of Glasgow’s most powerful people to do it. “A series that no crime fan should miss: dangerous, thrilling, but with a kind voice to cut through the darkness.”—Scotsman

    Author

    Alan Parks

    Before beginning his writing career, Alan Parks was Creative Director at London Records and Warner Music, where he marketed and managed artists including All Saints, New Order, The Streets, Gnarls Barkley, and Cee Lo Green. His love of music, musician lore, and even the industry, comes through in his prize-winning mysteries, which are saturated with the atmosphere of the 1970s music scene, grubby and drug-addled as it often was. Parks’ debut novel, Bloody January, propelled him onto the international literary crime fiction circuit and won him praise, prizes, and success with readers. In 2022 the third book in the Harry McCoy series, Bobby March Will Live Forever, won the MWA Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original. Parks was born in Scotland, earned an M.A. in Moral Philosophy from the University of Glasgow, and still lives and works in the city he so vividly depicts in his Harry McCoy thrillers.

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