February's Son
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4.5 • 39 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
A TOP TEN SCOTTISH BESTSELLER
ON DARK NIGHTS, SOMEONE NEEDS TO LIGHT A FEW FIRES . . .
Bodies are piling up with messages carved into their chests. Rival gangs are competing for control. New drugs have arrived in Glasgow, and they’ve brought a different kind of violence to the broken city. The law of the street is changing and demons from Detective McCoy’s past are coming back to haunt him.
Can McCoy keep his head up for long enough to deliver justice?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in Glasgow in 1973, Parks's serviceable sequel to 2018's Bloody January finds morally conflicted Det. Harry McCoy back on duty after having been declared psychologically fit for his part in pushing a man off a roof to his death. His ability to stomach gruesome crime scenes is tested immediately when he's called to the scene of the horrific murder of celebrity footballer Charlie Jackson. Jackson was found shot, with one eye removed, his severed penis stuffed into his mouth, and the words BYE BYE carved into his chest. The sports star was engaged to Elaine Scobie, whose father, Jake, is a powerful local gangster. The nature of the mutilations suggests a personal motive, and McCoy pursues the theory that Jake ordered that Jackson be butchered for cheating on his daughter. That angle leads to a hunt for Jake's main hit man, Kevin Connolly. A chance discovery reawakens a childhood trauma for McCoy, which complicates the murder inquiry. While the streets of Parks's Glasgow are certainly mean, he offers little that hard-boiled fans haven't seen before.
Customer Reviews
In the Wasteland April is the cruellest month but in wasted Glasgow its February
Harry McCoy gets more irresponsible and at the same time more moral. This is darker than Chandler but McCoy in not mean though the streets are. The crime is overdone and a bit improbable but rooted in Seventies Glasgow’s streets, schemes and suburbs, coloured by it’s pubs and hotels this is a compelling read and any thriller which has a scene in Treron’s is a Glasgow treasure.