Bloody January (A Harry McCoy Thriller)

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Under an intense media focus, McCoy and his rookie partner, Wattie, haunt the streets of Glasgow and its criminal underbelly to try and get a handle on what happened and why.

Lorna’s roommate, Christine, reveals that Lorna made extra money as a party girl, “dating” several suspicious characters. This is a book whose plot seems surprisingly real: It is 1973 and Glasgow is a city on the cusp of a heroin epidemic. When an 18-year-old boy shoots a young woman dead in the middle of a busy Glasgow street and then commits suicide, McCoy knows it can’t be a random act of violence.Despite the violence it is not added in a gratuitous manner, it only adds to the authenticity of the reading experience. The sweeping emergency decree, signed by President Mikhail Gorbachef after an emergency meeting of the Presidium of the Soviet Parliament, followed a weekend of anti-Armenian riots in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, and open armed combat elsewhere.

General Secretary Gorbachev and other officials asserted that it was necessary to stop pogroms and violence against the Armenian population and to thwart efforts by extremists to overthrow the Soviet Azerbaijani government. In January 2010, a memorial for the Black January victims was erected in the Yasamal district of Baku. His debut novel Bloody January was shortlisted for the prestigious international crime prize the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.I seem to be saying this a lot just recently, but for fear of repeating myself, I have to say what an excellent debut novel this is! General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Mikhail Gorbachev and Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov asserted that military law was necessary to thwart efforts by the Azerbaijani independence movement to overthrow the Soviet Azerbaijani government. The informant is found with his tongue cut off and his throat slit in the showers of Barlinnie and nobody is talking. Parks brings to life a dark side of Glasgow from decades past in bleak but vivid detail, shirking nothing and likely curling a few toes for the faint of heart on his journey to the bottom of the bloody truth. I can’t say that it’s definitely true to life but it feels real and for fiction that’s important enough.

ALAN Parks is an amiable bear of a man who these days spends his time wandering around Glasgow thinking up ways to murder people.Glasgow reels, the dance macabre, a tough story for a hard city as I found when picking a prisoner up in the very early 1970s.