Paperboy
Callum McSorley
DCI Alison McCoist is newly promoted but less popular than ever. Chuck Gardner is the proud owner of both a confidential paper-shredding business and a serious betting habit. When McCoist investigates a rat-nibbled corpse under a flyover, both she and Chuck are sucked into a deadly stramash of gangland wars and police corruption. Can Chuck solve his problems before some heed-banger feeds him into his own shredder? And can McCoist claw herself out of this shitemire without her own shady dealings coming to light? It might depend on how far she's prepared to go...
““Callum McSorley has doubled down on what made Squeaky Clean such an amazing debut: his second novel is a cavalcade of gruesome violence, a welter of bodily fluids and a torrent of fantastically filthy language... A brilliant black comedy that repeatedly makes you squirm. Fizzing with energy and full of heart, it’s one of those books that you simply don’t want to end””
About the Author…
Callum McSorley is a writer based in Glasgow where he grew up. His debut thriller, Squeaky Clean, was inspired by years working in a carwash in the city's East End. It won the McIlvanney Prize for Best Scottish Crime Book of the Year, was a Times Crime Book of the Year and a Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month. It's sequel Paperboy (also starring DCI Alison McCoist) was a Times crime book of the month and shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize. The third book in the series, Rat Race, is forthcoming from Pushkin Vertigo.