Marie Gilzean, accused of murdering her own father, finds herself cast into a stinking cell deep within the walls of Edinburgh's notorious Tolbooth. With enemies on every side, she turns to the one man who is prepared to find the truth, and save her from the grim gallows awaiting her on the Grassmarket. Robert Young of Newbiggin. Working side by side with Captain Travers and Edinburgh's Town Guard, it soon becomes clear that the dead man took great pleasure in making more enemies than friends. With no shortage of possible suspects, Robert must dig through the dirt and false leads, in a search to bring the truth out into the light and deliver the guilty to justice