Paperboy

The dark, rawly comic follow-up to the winner of the McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish crime book of the year, new in paperback

'Inventive and witty, with a nerve-shredding finale' Chris Brookmyre

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, 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 shitemire without her own shady dealings coming to light? It might depend on how far she's prepared to go...