The Blood of Crows

✍ Scribed by Ramsay, Caro

• Book ID: 107167482
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 217 KB
• Series: Anderson and Costello 4
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Shortlisted with her novel Absolution for the CWA's New Blood Dagger, Caro Ramsay returns with a brand new murder case in the popular Anderson & Costello series - The Blood of Crows will be a huge treat for all fans of Ian Rankin and Val McDermid and establishes Caro Ramsay firmly as one of the most exciting new voices in Scottish crime fiction.For one Scottish cop the beat is about to get dark and very bloody . . . DI Colin Anderson is having a bad week. His conviction of paedophile Skelpie Fairbairn is declared unsafe - putting Fairbairn back on Glasgow's streets and leaving Anderson under investigation.Add to this a gangster torched alive, a teenage boy tortured then dropped off a bridge and the suicide of a cop who worked an unsolved child kidnapping way back in 1996 and Anderson's got his hands full. Then one night, a young girl is tied to the river bank and left for the tide. Anderson gets there, but she dies in his arms. Working round the clock his team discover these...