“Loved it, Caro! Your best so far and I’ve loved them all.” A reader in the UK

Meet your next favourite Scottish detectives: DI Colin Anderson and DS Winifred ‘Freddie’ Costello.

One year ago.

Two boys are killed on a remote Scottish island.

A third boy barely makes it back to shore alive.

He says a man from the campground did it.

Now.

A 92-year-old woman is found burned to death in her home. On the same day, a man’s mutilated corpse is discovered in a field. His arms have been ripped from their sockets and a Tarot card stuffed in his mouth.

The police connect the armless man to the island murders. But was he really responsible? And how is he linked to the death of the old woman?

Detectives Anderson and Costello must dig up the past to connect crimes old and new in a case where nothing is as it seems.

AN ELECTRIFYING SCOTTISH THRILLER WITH A HEART-STOPPING FINALE.

Fans of Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Denise Mina, Matt Brolly, Carol Wyer, Joy Ellis, Stuart MacBride, Angela Marsons, Helen H. Durrant, JD Kirk, DS Butler and LJ Ross will love this series.