The Échappée Livre bookstore will welcome author Alan Parks this Saturday, Friday, October 11 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. for a meeting and signing session. With Alan Parks at Échappée Livre, it’s the working-class and mafioso Glasgow of the 70s that comes to Saint-Sulpice. His investigator, Harry Mc Coy, solves the murders which follow one another with a lot of pints and whiskey. McCoy is a loner, raised in a home, who hasn’t found his soul mate. A big drinker and a little eater, a big smoker, tossed around by musical rhythms, he tries to stay on the ridge between legality and illegality. His earthy face, with bags under his eyes, looks no better than his rumpled suit. Fortunately his boss Murray has it right. Sometimes he gets angry at drug dealers or crooked cops, but he never hits women, unlike his filthy colleague Reaburn. Before becoming a writer, Alan Parks worked in the music world. He worked with Lloyd Cole and the Commotions and various other groups at London Records and then Warner Music. In 2017, Alan Parks began a series of novels featuring Harry McCoy, a police investigator in the 1970s in Glasgow, Scotland. All titles contain a month of the year in its title. His third novel, Bobby March Will Live Forever, won the 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Prize for best paperback and the 2023 Mystère Prize for foreign novels critics. His fifth novel May God Forgive won the title of best detective novel in 2022 Scottish of the year.
