However, he’ll need to dig really deep to tackle this investigation, that exposes corruption, which extends to senior officer level within the Scottish Police Service. Shite,' he hissed as he fell to the damp earth in a painful heap, cracking his knee on the edge of a flat, partially concealed gravestone.

I also like the actual police type investigation stuff to happen on-page such as crime scene descriptions and investigations etc.For more Scottish crime, we can recommend For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley) by Denzil Meyrick and The Red, Red Snow by Caro Ramsay. Tam Hardie was the head of Scotland’s most sinister crime family and now Tam Hardie Junior is the head and is seeking revenge. I mostly read adult books but do have the occasional foray into YA and middle grade when the mood takes.

It was who was missing that caught the interest of the Serious Organised Crime Team at Gartcosh and DS Max Craigie and DC Janie Calder set off to Caithness.It gives the novel an edge with Max and Janey pursuing proof of what the villains have done while being obstructed at every turn by unknown forces. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. The good guys are determined to bring down the Hardie family, but to do that, they need to bring down each and every dirty cop, who are feeding information to the Hardie’s and who are, in effect, derailing the whole investigation. As much as I dislike unnecessary prologues and although it’s not titled as such the first chapter is written from the perspective of the missing man right before he vanished and it really worked as we get to meet him first-hand in a way that we wouldn’t otherwise. Walburga Appleseed, author of The Princess and the Prick, talks about changing the narrative and putting a feminist, frank, and funny spin on the fairy tales we all grew up with.

So the plot is good but it is accompanied by an excellent writing style that is lively and encourages further reading. The head of Scotland’s most powerful crime family is brutally murdered, his body dumped inside an ancient grave in a remote cemetery. It may be cold outside, but we’re turning our thoughts to warmer days and looking forward to swapping out grey skies for blue. At first, the book was something of a slow burn, but as it gradually gathered pace, I found myself reading in longer and longer chunks until I reached the last quarter and then I had to gallop through the rest at speed.More than a ‘Who Dunnit’, this is a sharply focused police procedural with an expert eye for the hierarchies within a department. Today I am sharing my thoughts on Dead Man’s Grave by Neil Lancaster, book one in the Max Craigie series. The best police procedural I've read in years' Jane Casey 'Grabbed me from the first page' Ian Rankin This grave can never be opened. When bodies connected to the murder start appearing, Max is less inclined to stop investigating even after his superiors tell him to move on to the next case. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.