The Blood of Crows
- 22 Jul 2021
- 9781838855031
- £8.99
- 496 pp
- 129×198mm
In a few words
The fourth instalment in the Anderson and Costello series turns personal for Anderson as he fights to clear his name while investigating a series of brutal crimes targeting child victims
Praise for Caro Ramsay:
The terrific cast of characters keep the action and detection compelling
Brilliant in twisting the tension tauter with each page
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Better the devil you know . . . or the one you don’t?
For DI Colin Anderson, there’s no such simple thing as right and wrong.
As his seemingly clear-cut conviction of paedophile Skelpie Fairbairn is declared unsafe, Anderson finds himself under investigation. Pressure on the DI mounts as an elusive criminal mastermind known as the Puppeteer seems to be the link in a series of alarming events: a gangster torched alive; a teenage boy tortured then dropped off a bridge; and the suicide of a cop working on a decades-old, unsolved child kidnapping.
When a young girl dies in Anderson’s arms after being left to drown, he is at his wits’ end. With Fairbairn as his only lead, is he prepared to dance with the devil to solve her murder?
Praise for Caro Ramsay:
Glasgow comes alive in Caro Ramsay's dark, vivid and daring thriller
Val Mcdermid On Absolution
Ramsay handles her characters with aplomb, the dialogue crackles and the search for the killer has surprising twists and turns
Well drawn characters and a great sense of place set this series head and shoulders above most of the competition
[Ramsay] is able to write scenes of heartbreaking tenderness nestled amid evocations of such grotesque violence that it is difficult to imagine that they can coexist as such sublime interlocking pieces of the whole...
Caro Ramsay
View profileCaro Ramsay is the Glaswegian author of the critically acclaimed DI Anderson and DS Costello series, the first of which Absolution, was shortlisted for the CWA’s New Blood Dagger for best debut of the year. The ninth book in the series, The Suffering of Strangers, was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2018.
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