Bloody January, Paperback

Descriere

An exciting, evocative first-in-series noir novel set in 1973 Glasgow, a city on the cusp of a heroin epidemic, featuring detective Harry Mc Coy. When an 18-year-old boy shoots a young woman dead in the middle of a busy Glasgow street and then commits suicide, Mc Coy knows it can't be a random act of violence. With a newbie partner in tow, Mc Coy uses his underworld network to build a picture of a secret society run by Glasgow's wealthiest family, the Dunlops. Drugs, sex, incest; every nefarious predilection is catered to, at the expense of the lower echelon of society, an underclass that includes Mc Coy's best friend from reformatory school - drug-Tsar Stevie Cooper - and his on-off girlfriend, a prostitute, Janey. But with Mc Coy's boss calling off the hounds, and his boss' boss unleashing their own, the Dunlops are apparently untouchable. Mc Coy has other ideas. Fans of Mc Ilvanney's Laidlaw books and Oliver Harris' The Hollow Man, Ian Rankin's and Dennis Lehane's fiction, and TV shows like Idris Elba's Luther will find themselves thoroughly satisfied here.