We’re delighted that BOBBY MARCH WILL LIVE FOREVER by Edgar Award-winning author Alan Parks has been shortlisted for the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel 2022.
Also shortlisted in the Best Mystery Novel category are: The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly, Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby, 1979 by Val McDermid, We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker and Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead.
The nominees and winners of the Macavity Awards are chosen by members of Mystery Readers International, who vote for their favourite mysteries in five categories. It is named after the ‘mystery cat’ in T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Past winners of the Best Mystery Novel award include Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby, The Chain by Adrian McKinty, November Road by Lou Berney and Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz.
BOBBY MARCH WILL LIVE FOREVER is the third in the highly acclaimed Harry McCoy series and was published in the US and Canada by Europa in April 2021, following its first UK publication in 2020. It recently won the Best Paperback Original category at the 2022 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Awards.
Rights to the series have been sold in more than ten countries around the world. The fourth book in the series, THE APRIL DEAD, was shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize in 2021, while the latest book, MAY GOD FORGIVE, has been longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2022.
BOBBY MARCH WILL LIVE FOREVER by Alan Parks
Who is to blame when no one is innocent?
There’s a heatwave in Glasgow and the drugs trade is booming. The whole force is searching for missing thirteen-year-old Alice Kelly. All except Harry McCoy, who has been taken off the case after a run-in with the boss, and is instead sent alone to investigate the death of rock-star Bobby March, who has just overdosed in the Royal Stuart hotel.
The papers want blood. The force wants results. McCoy has a hunch. But does he have enough time?
Praise for the Harry McCoy series
‘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.’ – Publishers Weekly
‘Parks’ sprawling plot offers not tidy whodunit puzzles but a wide-angle view of a gritty city in the grip of crime, home to an entertaining cross section of characters. Broad-shouldered McCoy is suitably unflappable as he walks Glasgow’s mean streets.’ – Kirkus Reviews
‘Parks captures the feel of a city long vanished in a breathless and tense retro crime caper.’ – The Sun
‘A series that no crime fan should miss: dangerous, thrilling, but with a kind voice to cut through the darkness.’ – Scotsman
‘Pitch-black tartan noir, set in 70s Glasgow ... Compelling ... with an emotional heart that’s hard to ignore.’ – Daily Mail
About Alan Parks
Alan Parks was Creative Director at London Records in the mid 1990’s, then at Warner Music, where he created ground-breaking campaigns for artists including All Saints, New Order, The Streets, Gnarls Barclay and Cee Lo Green. He was also Managing Director of 679 Recordings, a joint venture with Warner Music. His debut novel BLOODY JANUARY propelled him onto the international literary crime fiction scene immediately and his work has been hailed by contemporary writers and critics alike.
BLOODY JANUARY was shortlisted for the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, FEBRUARY’S SON was nominated for an Edgar Award, BOBBY MARCH WILL LIVE FOREVER was picked as a Times Best Book of the Year, won an Edgar Award and has been shortlisted for the Macavity Award for Best Mystery novel, THE APRIL DEAD was shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year and MAY GOD FORGIVE has been longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year.
Alan was born in Scotland and attended The University of Glasgow where he was awarded a M.A. in Moral Philosophy. He still lives and works in the city that is so vividly depicted in the 1970s setting of his Harry McCoy thrillers.
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