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]
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]