A savage murder with no apparent motive - DS Morrow's most challenging case
brings her work and home lives dangerously close... From the two-time winner
of the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.When
wealthy Sarah Erroll dies a violent death at her home in a posh part of
Glasgow, the local community is stunned by what appears to be a truly
gratuitous act. Heavily pregnant with desperately wanted twins, DS Alex Morrow
is called in to investigate and soon discovers that there is more to Sarah's
murder than it first seems.On the other side of town, Thomas Anderson is
called into the headmaster's office at his boarding school to be told that his
tyrannical father - a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in
the recession - has committed suicide by hanging himself from the old oak tree
on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his
mother and sister in a state of numb shock. The head of the household is dead,
yet their initial reaction is not that of grief, but relief.As Alex Morrow
slowly unravels the connections between the two cases, she faces her greatest
challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous
consequences.
A savage murder with no apparent motive - DS Morrow's most challenging case
brings her work and home lives dangerously close... From the two-time winner
of the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.When
wealthy Sarah Erroll dies a violent death at her home in a posh part of
Glasgow, the local community is stunned by what appears to be a truly
gratuitous act. Heavily pregnant with desperately wanted twins, DS Alex Morrow
is called in to investigate and soon discovers that there is more to Sarah's
murder than it first seems.On the other side of town, Thomas Anderson is
called into the headmaster's office at his boarding school to be told that his
tyrannical father - a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in
the recession - has committed suicide by hanging himself from the old oak tree
on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his
mother and sister in a state of numb shock. The head of the household is dead,
yet their initial reaction is not that of grief, but relief.As Alex Morrow
slowly unravels the connections between the two cases, she faces her greatest
challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous
consequences.
