January 2019
Bodies are piling up with grisly messages carved into their
chests. Rival gangs are competing for control of Glasgow's underworld and it
seems that Cooper, McCoy's oldest gangster friend, is caught up in it all.
Detective Harry McCoy's first day back at work couldn't have gone worse. 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 now demons from
McCoy's past are coming back to haunt him. But vengeance always carries a
price, and it could cost McCoy more than he ever imagined. The waters of
Glasgow corruption are creeping higher, as the wealthy and dangerous play for
power. And the city's killer continues his dark mission. Can McCoy keep his
head up for long enough to solve the case? Bruised and battered from the events
of Bloody January, McCoy returns for a breathless ride through the ruthless
world of 1970s Glasgow. February’s Son
is by Alan Parks.
April 2019
Things in Jars is by Jess Kidd. London, 1863. Bridie Devine,
the finest female detective of her age, is taking on her toughest case yet.
Reeling from her last job and with her reputation in tatters, a remarkable
puzzle has come her way. Christabel Berwick has been kidnapped. But Christabel
is no ordinary child. She is not supposed to exist. As Bridie fights to recover
the stolen child she enters a world of fanatical anatomists, crooked surgeons
and mercenary showmen. Anomalies are in fashion, curiosities are the thing, and
fortunes are won and lost in the name of entertainment. The public love a
spectacle and Christabel may well prove the most remarkable spectacle London
has ever seen. Things in Jars is an enchanting Victorian detective novel that
explores what it is to be human in inhumane times.
June 2019
The Way of all Flesh is by Ambrose Parry. The only difference between a medicine and a
poison is the dosage. Edinburgh, 1847.
City of Medicine, Money, Murder. In the
city's Old Town a number of young women have been found dead, all having
suffered similarly gruesome ends. Across the city in the New Town, medical
student Will Raven is about to start his apprenticeship with the brilliant and
renowned Dr Simpson. Simpson's patients range from the richest to the poorest
of this divided city. His house is like no other, full of visiting luminaries
and daring experiments in the new medical frontier of anaesthesia. It is here that Raven meets housemaid Sarah
Fisher, who recognises trouble when she sees it and takes an immediate dislike
to him. She has all of Raven's intelligence but none of his privileges, in
particular his medical education. With
each having their own motive to look deeper into the city's spate of suspicious
deaths, Raven and Sarah find themselves propelled headlong into the darkest
shadows of Edinburgh's underworld, where they will have to overcome their
differences if they are to make it out alive.
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