My first event of the year will be in March, and I’m kicking it off with a big one: the launch of the paperback edition of PAPERBOY!

A finalist for the McIlvanney Prize, listed as a crime and thriller book of the year by the Telegraph and the Sunday Times, PAPERBOY will be available in paperback from Thursday 12th March and I’ll be celebrating that night with an event at the wonderful indie bookshop The Bookmonger in Bearsden.

Details and tickets here.

About PAPERBOY

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…

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