Bloody January (A Harry McCoy Thriller)

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McCoy sees Wattie as a younger version of himself; the junior detective plays less like a sidekick than a conscience to his older partner. A special session of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR was held on 22 January 1990 at the request of the public and by the initiative of a group of MPs. As I’ve said before I do like a book where I feel slightly soiled by the reading experience, in a similar vein to Benjamin Myers and Jake Arnott, and Bloody January fitted the bill perfectly.

The Drift, her autobiographical spoken word show, was part of the National Theatre of Scotland’s 2019 season and Black History Month 2019. The dialogue is your standard gritty noir fiction style and the scenes are moving fast across readers eyes. There’s a lot of reference to past events (Harry’s heroic efforts on behalf of the homeless for example) and it felt almost as if this book was part of an already-commenced series, though it is in fact Parks’ debut novel.When Detective Harry McCoy arrives at the scene of a double shooting in the middle of a busy Glasgow street, he is sure of one thing. As poverty and crime drag the city deeper into a heroin epidemic, fighting in the streets has become depressingly mundane. The main storyline is very seedy indeed, involving as it does drugs, exploitation and abuse, which Parks determinedly lays before us warts and all. When Howie Nairn, a prisoner in the Special Unit of Barlinnie wants to see him, he is a bit irritated. At least 37 people have been killed during the past three days, mostly in attacks by the majority Shiite Moslem Azerbaijan is against the minority Christian Armenians in Baku, according to official counts.

As a result then, I’ve been very much enjoying books like Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy series, set in 1980s Belfast during the thick of the ‘Troubles’.

The case leads Harry to the powerful, ruthless and untouchable Dunlop family who know no boundaries when it comes to assuaging their deviant sexual proclivities. Despite the violence it is not added in a gratuitous manner, it only adds to the authenticity of the reading experience. Alan Parks's grisly debut novel, Bloody January, is also set in Glasgow--in the first month of 1973. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

Detective Harry McCoy finds himself in Barlinnie to be informed of the planned killing of a waitress, Lorna, who works at an upmarket restaurant.Black January ( Azerbaijani: Qara Yanvar), also known as Black Saturday or the January Massacre, was a violent crackdown on Azerbaijani nationalism and anti-Soviet sentiment in Baku on 19–20 January 1990, as part of a state of emergency during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The new gnarly star of the Scottish Noir scene, McCoy fits the archetypal mould of the flawed protagonist. DI Alex Morrow is comparing notes with DS William Lorimer at one table, DI Colin Anderson and DS Freddie Costello are doing the same at another, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod and investigative journalist Rosie Gilmour are chatting about old cases at a third.

The book is peppered with cultural and political references familiar to those of us born nearer that era- ahem- as well painting a grimly real backdrop for readers less familiar with the period. With a newbie partner in tow, McCoy hunts down leads through the underworld, all of which lead to a secret society run by Glasgow’s wealthiest family, the Dunlops. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. January is recognized as a Day of Mourning and it is commemorated as the Day of Nationwide Sorrow ( Azerbaijani: Ümumxalq Hüzn Günü).for a stand-alone about a police detective, a developmentally delayed boy, and a package everyone in North Dakota wants to grab.