Bloody January

Harry McCoy Series, Book 1

De: Alan Parks

Narrado por: Andrew McIntosh

An exciting, evocative first-in-series noir novel set in 1973 Glasgow, a city on the cusp of a heroin epidemic, featuring detective Harry McCoy.

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. With a newbie partner in tow, McCoy 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 McCoy's best friend from reformatory school - drug-tsar Stevie Cooper - and his on-off girlfriend, a prostitute, Janey. But with McCoy's boss calling off the hounds, and his boss's boss unleashing their own, the Dunlops are apparently untouchable. McCoy has other ideas.

Fans of William McIlvanney's Laidlaw books and Oliver Harris's The Hollow Man, Ian Rankin's and Dennis Lehane's fiction, and TV shows like Luther will find themselves thoroughly satisfied here.

©2017 Alan Parks (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Wow

First time I have read the McCoy series, going to read listen to the next one . Difficult at first with the narrators brogue but after the 1st chapter it became easier and lends to the story

Good story, bad narration

We have the somewhat typical lone wolf detective with issues, yet the story itself is good, violent yes, but good.
My problem is the narration. I’m generally okay with most accents but this narrator laid on a heavy Scottish brogue that rendered portions of the book unintelligible.

Gratuitous sex and violence

Other than that not a bad writer or narrator , but really it got ridiculous. Skip it, wish I had.

Lazy author that relies on shock value

Meh, sloppy writing and storyline leaves much to be desired for. It seems that the author rushes from one violent scene into the next. It gets old real fast.