Squeaky Clean by Callum McSorley

Squeaky Clean by Callum McSorleyWINNER OF THE McILVANNEY PRIZE for SCOTTISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEARFEATURES 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 FrearHalf 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

That means a lot of lessons hard-learned - and here

Home on leave and still reeling from the tragic events at Dunkirk

So when nineteen-year-old Mickey

from the Black Sea shores of Crimea

and the imminence of the Paris Olympics

some books have changed the world

on a snowy night at the end of winter

A Wild Child's Book of Birds is a fantastic nature book

even though she's been in love with him since childhood

The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history that reveals in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river

this is an intimate portrait of an outstanding artist in exceptional times

or that simply looks decorative