Stuart MacBride

Aberdeen's Polish community is under attack from a serial offender who leaves mutilated victims to be discovered on building sites. Detective Logan McRae is assigned to the investigation, but with the victims too scared to talk, it's going nowhere fast. When the next victim turns out to be Simon McLeod, owner of the Turf n' Track bookies, Logan suddenly finds himself caught up in a world of drug wars, prostitution and gun-running courtesy of Aberdeen's oldest and most vicious crime lord.

Richard Knox has served his time, so why can't he live wherever he wants? Yes, he was a violent rapist, but he's seen the error of his ways. Found God. Wants to make a new start. Or so he says. DS Logan McRae isn't thrilled to be helping Knox settle into his new Aberdeen home. He's even less thrilled to be stuck with DSI Danby from Northumbria Police - the man who put Knox behind bars - supposedly here to 'keep an eye on things'. And things are about to go very, very wrong.