John Callaghan: 8 books

Fifteen short tales from the casebook of Stevie McCabe, private detective and mordant observer of the human condition. In stories populated by the city's cast of rogues (and worse), new characters join familiar names on Glasgow's mean streets - the gangster at Midnight Mass, the ghost in a...

Glasgow’s Southside is scorching in unaccustomed heat and the neighbourhood teeters on the edge, simmering and riot-ready.In the city's docklands, a taxi driver murders his family in a bloody daylight massacre.A bitter dispute between a union and a politically-connected business...

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...

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 twenty years ago, while still a child himself.Stevie McCabe knows nothing of why Lachlan, released from psychiatric care after a long incarceration, calls for his...

What is your life worth if you’re nobody famous? What would you give to be somebody…anybody? Britain’s most sensational TV show is under attack from a fanatical religious cult and Stevie McCabe is in a desperate race to discover what the sect is planning, while tracing a stalker whose...

My brother Johnny lives in Florida. He wants to keep it that way. To keep living, that is - the Florida part is negotiable.What does family mean? Everything? Nothing?Private detective Stevie McCabe finds himself 5000 miles from home answering a distress call, deserting the hard streets of Glasgow...

Mired in the world of errant wives, missing persons fleeing mundane bills, businesses pursuing dishonest staff and petty personal transgressions, Stevie McCabe is suddenly asked to investigate the affairs of a local Labour MP. Although he knows his client is lying, the commission gets his attention,...

A case from Stevie McCabe’s past, a world where mobile phones were a luxury and politics were changing in ways that nobody could control. Engaged by a sacked civil servant and his unlikely Asian-American partner, a simple - dull, even - case of unfair dismissal escalates when the former Soviet secret...