BRUTALLY GRIPPING. GLEEFULLY MACABRE. DS Hutton is back, and there's blood flowing. Faces bitten off, slashed throats, frenzied stabbing and severed heads. There's a killer abroad in Glasgow, and all Hell is let loose. A low-level gangland villain gets out of prison, and goes seeking reven
Let Me Die In My Footsteps: A Scottish Crime Thriller (DS Thomas Hutton Crime Series Book 7)
β Scribed by Douglas Lindsay
- Book ID
- 110597619
- Publisher
- Long Midnight Publishing
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 138 KB
- Series
- DS Thomas Hutton Crime Series Book 7
- Category
- Fiction
- ASIN
- B09P1JNHBK
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β¦ Synopsis
A winter wonderland becomes a snowbound, claustrophobic hellscape
Detective Sergeant Hutton has taken a month's leave, after inadvertently sleeping with the chief inspector. He is a few days into his stay in a small Highland village when the local police come calling for aid. A young woman has gone missing. Hutton, as uncomfortably addicted to police work as he is to sex and vodka, agrees to help.
The hunt is on for Alice Schafer. Part-time Post Office worker, bit-part player in the low-budget vampire feature shooting nearby, and promiscuous lover with a reputation around town. Add in the curious case of the Lodge of St Augustine, and Hutton has to cast a very wide net.
Someone, however, does not want Hutton involved. Low-level threats quickly escalate, and the terrorising of Hutton has begun. And as winter weather closes in, and the villagers are trapped in a suffocating snowstorm, it's not just Hutton who will be haunted. Blood flows, screams disappear in the night, and at last a killer will show her handβ¦
"A master of comic crime." SCOTTISH FIELD
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
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A COMING STORM. A KILLER UNLEASHED. A body is found in a park in the middle of Glasgow. Arms and legs bound by strong, thin wire, small cuts made in the neck and the groin, arteries severed. The murder was surgical, the methods used fastidious and precise. Four days later, another body, another w