Logan McRae

It’s DS Logan McRae’s first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn’t get much worse. Three-year-old David Reid’s body is discovered in a ditch: strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. And he’s only the first. There’s a serial killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood. Soon the dead are piling up in the morgue almost as fast as the snow on the streets, and Logan knows time is running out.

It's summertime in Scotland: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying.... It starts with Rosie Williams, a prostitute beaten to death in the heart of Aberdeen's red light district. For DS Logan McRae, it's a bad start to another bad day. And despite Logan's best efforts, it's not long before another prostitute turns up on the slab....