February's Son - Alan Parks

Finalist for the Edgar Award: "McCoy is so noir he makes most other Scottish cops seem light grey." —The Times

An up-and-coming footballer has met an untimely end—and in a spectacularly gruesome fashion, topped off with the words Bye Bye carved into his chest. Harry McCoy knows this kind of violence indicates a personal, passionate motive, and since the footballer's future father-in-law is a notorious local gangster, that's where Harry starts his investigation. The case will take him into the seamy, drug-drenched underworld of 1970s Glasgow, and into his own dark childhood memories, in this intense crime thriller from Alan Parks, considered in "the top class of Scottish noir authors" ( The Times).

"Dissects a city where cops and crooks depend on one another to maintain order." —The Wall Street Journal

"Riveting . . . The macabre and morally ambivalent February's Son is not one that will be quickly or easily forgotten." — The National

"McCoy's Glasgow is a dark, brooding city, where the line between the police and the underworld is frequently blurred." — Herald