In the early hours of an August Monday morning in Edinburgh, Brodie McLennan gets a call. The custody sergeant is reluctant to tell her who is in the cells and asking for her by name... one Kailash Coutts.
For those who like to know these things: Grace Monroe is the nom-de-plume of the writing team Maria Thomson and Linda Watson-Brown. Thomson has the legal background (together with supplementary experience in hypnotherapy, sports coaching and fertility counselling), Watson-Brown studied politics and brings the journalist and fiction-writing experience to the mix. They work well together.
If you enjoy this you might also like just about anything in the Rankin tradition - check out [[The Naming of the Dead]] or [[Exit Music]] from the man himself. You might also enjoy [[Death at Friar's Inn by Rob Keeley]].