Bobby March Will Live Forever
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3.8 • 12 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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 knows only too well, every hour that goes by makes the Alice Kelly case more of a lost cause.
Meanwhile, the niece of McCoy's boss has fallen in with a bad crowd and when she goes missing, McCoy is asked—off the books—to find her. McCoy has a hunch that there's a connection between these events. But time to prove it is running out, the papers are out for blood, and the department wants results fast. Justice must be served.
The third novel in the acclaimed Harry McCoy series combines a "breathless and tense retro crime caper" with a pitch-perfect depiction of 1970s Glasgow—its music, hard men, political infighting, class divisions, and the moral questions at its heart (The Sun, UK).
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 1973 Glasgow, Scotland, Edgar finalist Parks's solid third unapologetically violent crime novel featuring Harry McCoy (after 2019's February's Son) immerses the police detective in the drug and music-fueled counterculture of the times. Assigned to uncover the mystery surrounding the overdose death of a rock star found dead in a hotel room, McCoy must also resolve a botched case involving an abducted child in which the wrongfully accused man committed suicide while in custody. Complicating matters is a covert mission from McCoy's chief, who has tasked the detective to find his 15-year-old runaway niece, who may be living with her thug of a boyfriend. Though the narrative early on feels unfocused, it quickly gains purpose and momentum, and builds to an impressively powerful conclusion. Maneuvering through the mean streets of Glasgow, the morally ambiguous, deeply flawed McCoy makes an ideal antihero. The meticulously described setting is so suggestive readers may even catch whiffs of stale cigarette smoke and patchouli. Fans of Scottish noir will be satisfied.
