When the body of Thomas MagnerтАЩs business partner is found dead in his car on the outskirts of Anstruther, all evidence points to suicide. And Magner himself, a wealthy property developer, is currently under investigation for a series of alleged rapes from thirty years ago.
In total fifteen women are prepared to go to court to testify against Magner but one by one they inexplicably withdraw their complaints until only five remain. With the CPS now reconsidering its case, one of MagnerтАЩs accusers is killed in a hit-and-run тАУ and the abandoned car is found to be registered to one T Magner.
DCI Andy Gilchrist is assigned to the hit-and-run case and soon discovers that MagnerтАЩs murky past is very much seeping into the present. How did he acquire his wealth? How his first wife die? And why did his business partner commit suicide?
And was Magner a serial rapist in his youth? Or was he something far worse?
Praise for T.F. Muir:
тАШRebus did it for Edinburgh. Laidlaw did it for Glasgow. Gilchrist might just be the bloke to put St Andrews on the crime fiction map.тАЩ Daily Record
тАШA bright new recruit to the swelling army of Scots crime writers.тАЩ Quintin Jardine
тАШGripping and grisly, with plenty of twists and turns that race along with black humour.тАЩ Craig Robertson
тАШGilchrist is intriguing, bleak and vulnerable... if I were living in St Andrews IтАЩd sleep with the lights on.тАЩ Anna Smith
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