«Anderson is a master storyteller, filling her novels with engaging characters, clever, compelling, contemporary plotlines and a beautifully descriptive prose that belies the death and darkness of her powerful, pulsating crime mysteries»

Blackpool Gazette

«Overall, this is a cracking five star read that is both dark and complex. Heartily recommended . Go on, treat yourself, you know you want to . . .»

Love and Deadly

«The best Scottish crime series since Rebus»

Daily Record

«Shades of The Wicker Man, with a touch of Agatha Christie. Superb»

Daily Mail

«The bleak landscape is beautifully described, giving this popular series a new lease of life»

Sunday Times

«Hugely imaginative and exciting»

James Grieve (Emeritus Professor of Forensic Pathology)

«Brilliant book by a brilliant crime writer. True forensics at its very best»

Lorna Dawson, CBE (Principal Soil Scientist, James Hutton Institute & Professor, RGU)

«This book will keep you guessing to the end»

People's Friend

«Lin Anderson is one of Scotland’s national treasures – don’t be fooled by comparisons, her writing is unique, bringing warmth and depth to even the seediest parts of Glasgow. Lin’s Rhona MacLeod is a complex and compelling heroine who just gets better with every outing»

Stuart MacBride

«They don’t call Lin Anderson the Queen of Tartan Noir for nothing! [She] is an expert at atmospheric narrative and with one swoop of her pen her prose will chill you to the bone»

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