Paperboy
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Pushkin Press
Publishing:13th Mar '25
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 13th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
The dark, rawly comic follow-up to the winner of the McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish crime book of the year.
'A serious talent' Kevin Bridges
'Inventive and witty, with a nerve-shredding finale' Chris Brookmyre
'An outstanding new writer who is destined to become a very big name' Peter James
DCI Alison McCoist is back: newly promoted and even less popular.
Chuck Gardner is the proud owner of both a confidential paper-shredding business and a serious betting habit.
When Chuck finds some scandalous paperwork and McCoist investigates a rat-nibbled corpse under a flyover, they are both sucked into a deadly stramash of gangland wars and police corruption.
Can Chuck solve his gambling and gangster problems before some head-banger feeds him into his own shredder? And can McCoist claw herself out of this latest shitemire without her own shady dealings coming to light? It might depend on how far she's prepared to go...
'McSorley consolidates his status among crime fictions rising stars. Paperboy is energetic, inventive and witty, laying on the tension as it builds to a nerve-shredding finale' - Chris Brookmyre
'Just when youre thinking Squeaky Clean is probably the perfect crime novel, along comes Paperboy. The biggest laughs, the seediest urban underbelly, the most irreparably flawed yet inexorably engaging cast' - Sofia Slater, author of The Serpent Dance
'Absolutely loved Paperboy, as dark as a dungeon at midnight but a lot more fun. Sparkling dialogue, startling violence and some truly terrifying villains. And as for Ally McCoist, what can I say? She shoots, she scores!' - Trevor Wood, author of The Man on the Street
'Magnificent metaphors; dialogue that skips across the page; McCoist with her smart mouth and predilection of getting smashed around the face-theres nothing I didnt love about this brilliant book. The most fun you can have with an industrial paper shredder' - Sam Holland, author of Puppet Master
'Callum McSorley has done it again! Paperboy is a wickedly funny return to Glasgows underbelly, where the citys renowned wit nestles alongside brutal violence. The beleaguered DCI Alison McCoist is again the perfect protagonist and McSorley is a master of the hapless character drawn into criminal chaos... I cant wait for the next instalment. Cracking!' - Heather Critchlow, author of Unsolved
ISBN: 9781805335450
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
384 pages