Alan Parks

Alan Parks is a Scottish crime writer whose series set in 1970s Glasgow has earned wide acclaim. His novel May God Forgive, like its companions Harry McCoy mysteries, uses a hard-drinking detective to walk through the city's pubs, gangs and institutional corruption of a vanished era.

A former advertising executive, Parks spent years behind the bestselling titles before becoming one himself. He is praised for pitch-perfect period atmosphere, morally grey police procedure and a sense of place as vivid as Rebus's Edinburgh, quickly establishing him among the strongest of the new Scottish noir writers.