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A review by jmatkinson1
Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
5.0
When a 13-year-old girl disappears from an estate on her way to buy icecream all of Glasgow wants to know what the police are doing about it. However, for Harry McCoy, he is not on the case, his nemesis Raeburn is leading it. McCoy is asked to look into the death of faded local rock star Bobby March but that just seems to be an accidental overdose and his boss' 15-year-old niece is relatively easy to find. However, all is not as it seems in the 1973 world of Glasgow crime as drugs are now the new way of making money whereas old-school armed robbery is more specialised.
This is a terrific read. Parks manages to hit the time and place aspect so perfectly, the sectarian issues in Glasgow, the split between the haves and the have nots, the sexism and the fantastic characters are coupled with a series of clever little subplots to combine to make a thoroughly enjoyable police procedural. I've read all of Parks' books and this is another triumph
This is a terrific read. Parks manages to hit the time and place aspect so perfectly, the sectarian issues in Glasgow, the split between the haves and the have nots, the sexism and the fantastic characters are coupled with a series of clever little subplots to combine to make a thoroughly enjoyable police procedural. I've read all of Parks' books and this is another triumph