DCI Alison McCoist is up to the oxters in Glasgow’s shadiest police unit, with a list of guilty secrets growing longer by the day.
Fran Forbes has just bolted from the scene of a gangland massacre with only a shite-stained tracksuit and a memory stick full of crypto-currency to his name.
Ally is tasked with looking into this latest underworld rammy and ends up working with some bampots even dodgier than her polis pals.
Can she keep Fran from being turned into mince by a Russian OCG and finally free herself from the fankle of police corruption she’s caught in? An enemy from Ally’s past is determined her story won’t have such a happy ending…
Reviews
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Twisting plots, grotesque lowlifes, black comedy, puns, over-the-top violence – and dialogue that bounces along to the rhythms of Glaswegian street slang
The Times
Callum McSorley has doubled down on what made Squeaky Clean such an amazing debut: his second novel is a cavalcade of gruesome violence, a welter of bodily fluids and a torrent of fantastically filthy language… A brilliant black comedy that repeatedly makes you squirm. Fizzing with energy and full of heart, it’s one of those books that you simply don’t want to end
The Times
The vibe is Taggart rewritten by Mick Herron. Gritty gang violence, plenty of black comedy, imaginative plot twists, wonderfully grotesque characters … and reading them has also expanded my lexicon of insults
The Times
Plunges us straight back into the world we were introduced to in the first novel; a world of Weegie gangsters, Glasgow banter and truly horrible deaths. I mean, proper gory deaths. But funny, too. Which means, this is the opposite of cosy crime. The result is very Glasgow and all the better for it
Herald
Extremely funny, exciting and ultimately touching
Literary Review
A Glasgow noir that will thrill and amuse those with a wicked sense of humour and a love of gritty crime fiction
Crime Time Review
Brutally funny and brilliantly plotted, with an engaging cast of characters
Glasgow Evening Times
The new star of tartan noir
The Times
McSorley consolidates his status among crime fiction’s rising stars. Paperboy is energetic, inventive and witty, laying on the tension as it builds to a nerve-shredding finale
Just when you’re thinking Squeaky Clean is probably the perfect crime novel, along comes Paperboy. The biggest laughs, the seediest urban underbelly, the most irreparably flawed yet inexorably engaging cast
