Deze serie volgt een rechercheur die zich een weg baant door de rauwe realiteit van zijn Schotse stad. Elke zaak duikt in complexe onderzoeken, waarbij de duistere kanten van de samenleving en de menselijke natuur worden ontrafeld. Lezers worden meegezogen in spannende procedures vol onverwachte wendingen en authentieke portretten van politiewerk. Het is een meeslepende kijk op rechtvaardigheid en de tol die het eist.
After his daughter disappeared on the eve of her thirteenth birthday five years ago, Detective Ash Henderson keeps secret the circumstances of her disappearance so he can continue to investigate the case, and others like it, by as suspect known as "The Birthday Boy."
A heart-stopping crime thriller and the fourth consecutive No. 1 Bestseller from the author of the Logan McRae series and Birthdays for the Dead. He's back... Eight years ago, 'The Inside Man' murdered four women and left three more in critical condition - all of them with their stomachs slit open and a plastic doll stitched inside. And then the killer just ... disappeared. Ash Henderson was a Detective Inspector on the initial investigation, but a lot can change in eight years. His family has been destroyed, his career is in tatters, and one of Oldcastle's most vicious criminals is making sure he spends the rest of his life in prison. Now a nurse has turned up dead on a patch of waste ground, a plastic doll buried beneath her skin, and it looks as if Ash might finally get a shot at redemption. At earning his freedom. At revenge.