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WINNER OF THE McILVANNEY PRIZE for SCOTTISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR

FEATURES AN EXTRACT FROM THE NEXT ALISON MCCOIST THRILLER, PAPERBOY

‘Amazingly accomplished’ The Times, Crime Book of the Month

‘Loved it’Kevin Bridges

‘A talent to watch’Chris Brookmyre

‘Very funny’Scotsman

‘Pitch dark yet dripping with warmth’Caz Frear

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Half the Glasgow copshop think DI Alison McCoistis bent. The other half just think she’s a fuck-up.

No one thinks much at all about carwash employee Davey Burnet, until one day he takes the wrong customer’s motor for a ride.

One kidnapping later, he’s officially part of Glasgow’s criminal underworld, working for a psychopath who enjoys playing games like ‘Keep Yer Kneecaps’ with any poor bastard who crosses him.

Can Davey escape from the gang’s clutches with his kneecaps and life intact? Perhaps this polis Ally McCoist who keeps nosing around the carwash could help. That’s if she doesn’t get herself killed first.

Publisher Review

“An astonishingly good debut. Wonderfully rounded characters, misfits all, who we really care about, in a compelling story laced with humour and humanity. Callum McSorley is an outstanding new writer who is destined to become a very big name in the genre.” – Peter James

“A good many ghastly things happen in Squeaky Clean, and McSorley doesn’t spare you the details; but this is also a comic novel, with characters who are, no matter how frightening and violent, absurd.” – Book Brunch

“Gritty, bloody and oozing with the menace of the underworld… McSorley has crafted an accomplished novel that is already being hailed as a classic of the Tartan Noir genre. [Squeaky Clean] cracks along at a rare pace, and combines an easy writing style, an ear for dialogue and a nice line in dry wit… The sort of page-turner which ensures that once you’ve started, you’ll keep going until the final, gripping denouement.” – Scottish Field