A novelist has received a criminal offense writing prize after lacking out on the award final 12 months.
Alan Parks was introduced with the McIlvanney Prize 2022 for his ebook Might God Forgive.
The accolade is known as in reminiscence of William McIlvanney, typically described because the godfather of tartan noir.
Parks was a finalist for the award final 12 months but it surely was received by Craig Russell along with his ebook Hyde.
Might God Forgive is the fifth outing for Parks’s Glasgow detective Harry McCoy and sees a determined seek for two kidnapped boys.
Ayo Onatade, chair of the McIlvanney Prize judges, stated: “Might God Forgive is each bit as entertaining, gritty, darkly humorous and steeped within the dirty underbelly of Glasgow because the earlier books.
“A unbelievable ebook with an intriguing forged of characters that not solely retains to a good timeframe, however is quick, onerous, edgy and thought-provoking.
“Seventies Glasgow has by no means been so completely invoked. A very gripping learn.”
The winner was introduced in Stirling on Thursday night on the Bloody Scotland pageant, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary 12 months.
Ambrose Parry, Louise Welsh and Liam McIlvanney, son of the late William McIlvanney, had been additionally on the shortlist for the McIlvanney Prize.
Earlier than turning into a criminal offense author, Parks labored with Lloyd Cole and the Commotions and numerous different bands first at London Information after which at Warner Music.
His debut novel, Bloody January, was revealed in December 2017.
The winner of the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize was additionally introduced on the pageant.
Tariq Ashkanani, a solicitor based mostly in Edinburgh, took the title with Welcome To Cooper.
Arusa Qureshi, chair of the judges for Debut Prize described the ebook as: “Effectively-structured, bleak and simply the correct quantity of disturbing.”
The finalists for each prizes led a torchlit procession from Stirling Fort to the Albert Halls the place the winners had been introduced.
The Bloody Scotland pageant runs till Sunday.