by Alan, Parks is a police procedural that takes readers into the gritty world of Glasgow in the 1970s, where detective Harry McCoy and Douglas Watson investigate a series of bombings in the city that might have links to Northern Ireland and the IRA. McCoy also struggles to juggle his family life with a newborn, a missing person’s case that might be linked to the bombings, and the potential conviction of one of his key connections with the Glasgow underworld. Parks, who lives in Glasgow, does a fantastic job conjuring the city’s past and bringing it to life.