Glasgow Noir Fiction

Mired in the world of errant wives and petty personal transgressions, Stevie McCabe is suddenly asked to investigate the affairs of a local Labour MP and the murder of a junkie. Through the peeling tower blocks and smart sandstone tenements of the city, he pursues both cases knowing that the strict limits of coincidence are being bent and and broken by the ways in which the stories intertwine.

It’s a clusterfuck..... a missing woman, an earl, who also happens to be a Catholic bishop, with his young male companion facing the threat of a murder charge. The missing woman was his girlfriend, and also the daughter of a senior police officer, and the copper himself is out of control. And Stevie McCabe is in the middle of it.

A case from Stevie McCabe’s past - engaged by a civil servant and his unlikely Asian-American partner, a simple case of unfair dismissal escalates when the former Soviet secret police become involved. But, nothing is as it seems, which McCabe learns as he uncovers quasi-official conspiracies, false trails leading overseas and the disappearance of huge sums of government money.

What is your life worth if you’re nobody famous? What would you give to be somebody…anybody? The fourth Stevie McCabe novel from Glasgow Noir Fiction finds the city of Glasgow providing a vivid backdrop for acts of mayhem, corruption and homicidal intent, in a landscape peopled by crooked police, gay brides, dying philosophers, spiritual gurus, teenage thugs and the missing.

Glasgow’s Southside scorches in the heat and the neighbourhood teeters, simmering and riot-ready. In the city's docklands, a taxi driver murders his family in a bloody daylight massacre. A bitter union dispute escalates into firebomb attacks and violence. Meanwhile, racist gangs seek violent confrontation after a white girl is raped and a Muslim woman attacked with acid. What can Stevie McCabe do?

My brother Johnny lives in Florida. He wants to keep it that way. To keep living, that is - the Florida part is negotiable.

The Doune family were old money, so old they had a motto and a coat of arms. But that didn’t stop Lachlan Doune becoming a child killer 20 years ago, while still a child himself. Stevie McCabe plunges into a world where money and privilege is overlaid on Glasgow’s tapestry of drugs and crime, a convergence that breeds creatures breathing squalid life and miserable death over all they touch.

15 short tales from the casebook of Stevie McCabe, private detective and mordant observer of the human condition. In stories peopled by the city's cast of rogues, new characters join familiar names on Glasgow's mean streets. Stevie McCabe takes them all on and the Glasgow Noir Fiction trademarks of dark, sardonic humour, biting dialogue and bleak reflection on our fallible species pepper the page

The first stage of grief is denial... Of course he couldn’t be dead. Not my Stevie. This was a mistake, a lie, a misunderstanding, the world’s sickest joke. Everything was normal, and it was going to stay normal, always. Nothing had changed. How could it? Glasgow private detective Stevie McCabe's final case...