With Sir Robert Skinner settles into his new career at the helm of a Spanish media group his ex-colleagues on the force face homicides at home and abroad.
As enquiries continue into murders in Glasgow, the bodies of a retired couple are found in their home in Andorra, ritually killed. Meanwhile Scotland's new Justice Secretary embarks on a personal crusade with the help of a figure from the recent past.
Can Skinner's new resources help the police, or has the gamekeeper turned poacher?
Praise for Quintin Jardine:
'Jardine's narrative has many an ingenious twist and turn' OBSERVER
'Scottish crime-writing at its finest' THE SUN
'A masterclass in how murder-mysteries ought to be written' SCOTS MAGAZINE
Quintin Jardine was born once upon a time in the West - of Scotland rather than America, but still he grew to manhood as a massive Sergio Leone fan. On the way there he was educated, against his will, in Glasgow, where he ditched a token attempt to study law for more interesting careers in journalism, government propaganda, and political spin-doctoring. After a close call with the Brighton Bomb in 1984, he moved into the even riskier world of media relations consultancy, before realising that all along he had been training to become a crime writer. Now, forty novels later, he never looks back.
Along the way he has created/acquired an extended family in Scotland and Spain. Everything he does is for them.
He can be tracked down through his blog: http://quintinjardine.me