Glasgow is a city in mourning. An arson attack on a hairdresser's has left five dead. Tempers are frayed and sentiments running high.
When three youths are charged the city goes wild. A crowd gathers outside the courthouse but as the police drive the young men to prison, the van is rammed by a truck, and the men are grabbed and bundled into a car. The next day, the body of one of them is dumped in the city centre. A note has been sent to the newspaper: one down, two to go.
Detective Harry McCoy has twenty-four hours to find the kidnapped boys before they all turn up dead and it is going to mean taking down some of Glasgow's most powerful people to do it . . .
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McCoy was almost at Wilson Street when he started to hear it.
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(@EuropaEditions, 28 April 2022, ebook, 371 pages, copy from the publisher)
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This is a new author for me. I decided to read May God Forgive as its set in Glasgow, where I lived for almost 18 years until 6 months ago. I really enjoyed this book. It contains a lot of what you'd expect from a gritty crime novel; fast pace, diverse, larger than life characters and plenty of action. Glasgow comes to life between the pages and I felt like I was really there. This is a compelling crime novel. I'd recommend it.
