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|reviewer=Sue Magee
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's the fifth book in the Oldcastle series and a compelling read. The humour is dark and you'll occasionally need a strong stomach. Definitely recommended.
|rating=4.5
|buy=Yes
|aznus=1787634906
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We're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in trouble. He's in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young people. One is Alegra Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugo. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.
Meanwhile, back at the station, Detective Sergeant Lucy McVeigh has returned to work after some traumatic events. Everyone is treating her with kid gloves and carefully ''not'' mentioning Neil Black. That's as well because Lucy can't actually say his name either. It's a problem that isn't going to go away: Black's mother is determined to prove that Lucy murdered her son - it's probably easier than admitting that you gave birth to, and brought up, a monster. No one has suggested that Lucy didn't kill Black - she didn't have a choice - but it leaves you in no doubt that she is capable of extreme violence.
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