The Number One bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. In this sixth DS Logan McRae thriller, Scotland s finest see first-hand how starting again can be murder
Everyone deserves a second chance.
Richard Knox has served his time, so why shouldn t he be allowed to live wherever he wants? Yes, in the past he was a violent rapist, but he s seen the error of his ways. Found God. Wants to leave his dark past in Newcastle behind him and make a new start. Or so he says.
Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn t exactly thrilled to be part of the team helping Knox settle into his new Aberdeen home. He s even less thrilled to be stuck with DSI Danby from Northumbria Police the man who put Knox behind bars for ten years supposedly here to keep an eye on things .
Only things are about to go very, very wrong.
Edinburgh gangster Malk the Knife wants a slice of the development boom Donald Trump s golf course is bringing to the Granite City, whether local crime lord Wee Hamish Mowat likes it or not. Three heavies from Newcastle want a quiet word with DSI Danby about a missing mob accountant. And Richard Knox s dark past isn t done with him yet "