Alan Parks (writer)
Scottish crime writer (born 1963)
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Alan Parks (born 1963)[1] is a Scottish crime writer in the Tartan Noir genre.[2][1] His fifth novel May God Forgive won the 2022 McIlvanney Prize as the best Scottish crime book of the year.[3]
Career
His novels, each including a month of the year in its title, are set in 1970s Glasgow and feature "rather bent copper" Harry McCoy.[1] May God Forgive was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.[4]
In August 2025, Parks was a guest on the Off the Shelf Podcast as part of a feature on the McIlvanney Prize[5].
