Galaxy the alpaca decides one day that the grass is greener the other side of the fence. Before too long he is lost, and needs the help of some new friends to help him home.

In this "fascinating and dangerous" Scottish noir, a detective scours Glasgow's gritty streets for two missing teens in the wake of a rock star's death ( The Times, Book of the Month, UK).July 1973. The Glasgow drug trade is booming and Bobby March, the city's own rock star hero, has just overdosed in a central hotel. But even that tragedy competes for headlines with the story of a thirteen-year-old girl who's gone missing. As Det. Harry McCoy know...

From an Edgar Award finalist: A cop tracks a shadowy, fanatical group in a "tightly plotted and fast-moving" noir mystery set in 1970s Glasgow ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).When an American sailor from the Holy Loch Base goes missing, Harry McCoy is determined to find him. But as he investigates, a wave of bombings hits Glasgow. Soon McCoy realizes that the sailor may be part of a shadowy organization led by a dangerous fanatic, and committed to a ve...

In this "fascinating and dangerous" Scottish noir, a detective scours Glasgow's gritty streets for two missing teens in the wake of a rock star's death ( The Times, Book of the Month, UK).July 1973. The Glasgow drug trade is booming and Bobby March, the city's own rock star hero, has just overdosed in a central hotel. But even that tragedy competes for headlines with the story of a thirteen-year-old girl who's gone missing. As Det. Harry McCoy know...

TARGET CONSUMERReaders of first-rate mysteries and noir thrillersFans of Tartan NoirFor readers of Brian Panowich, Don Winslow, Mick Herron, Henry Chang, Cara Black, Ian Rankin, Val McDermidLiterary, stylish, character-driven, plot-heavy, often humorous, always hardboiled crime writing from a new master of the genreKEY SELLING POINTSThe first paperback publication of book 3 in the Bes...

A Glasgow detective goes up against a wealthy family whose corruption runs deep in this gritty noir series debut set in 1970s Scotland.Glasgow, 1973. As poverty and crime drag the city deeper into a heroin epidemic, fighting in the streets has become depressingly mundane. But when an eighteen-year-old boy shoots a young woman dead in broad daylight and then commits suicide, Det. Harry McCoy knows it can't be a simple act of random violence. With a newbie pa...

From an Edgar Award finalist: A cop tracks a shadowy, fanatical group in a "tightly plotted and fast-moving" noir mystery set in 1970s Glasgow ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).When an American sailor from the Holy Loch Base goes missing, Harry McCoy is determined to find him. But as he investigates, a wave of bombings hits Glasgow. Soon McCoy realizes that the sailor may be part of a shadowy organization led by a dangerous fanatic, and committed to a ve...

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

WINNER OF THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 2023Glasgow 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 ...

WHO IS TO BLAME WHEN NO ONE IS INNOCENT?The papers want blood.The force wants results.The law must be served, whatever the cost.July 1973. The Glasgow drugs trade is booming and Bobby March, the city’s own rock-star hero, has just overdosed in a central hotel.Alice Kelly is thirteen years old, lonely. And missing.Meanwhile the niece of McCoy’s boss has fallen in with a bad crowd and when she go...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE FOR SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEARNO ONE WILL FORGET . . .In a grimy flat in Glasgow, a homemade bomb explodes, leaving few remains to identify its maker.Detective Harry McCoy knows in his gut that there’ll be more to follow. The hunt for a missing sailor from the local US naval base leads him to the secretive group behind the bomb, and their disturbing, dominating leader.On top of that,...

A woman enters a Glasgow police station to report her son missing, but no record can be found of the boy. When Detective Harry McCoy, seconded from the cop shop across town, discovers the family is part of the cultish Church of Christ’s Suffering, he suspects there is more to Michael’s disappearance than meets the eye.Meanwhile reports arrive of a string of poisonings of down-and-outs across the city. The dead are men who few barely notice, let alone care about – but, as McCoy is p...