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Shortlisted with her novel Absolution for the CWA's New Blood Dagger, Caro Ramsay returns with a brand new murder case in the popular Anderson & Costello series - The Blood of Crows will be a huge treat for all fans of Ian Rankin and Val McDermid and establishes Caro Ramsay firmly as one of the most exciting new voices in Scottish crime fiction. For one Scottish cop the beat is about to get dark and very bloody . . . DI Colin Anderson is having a bad week. His conviction of paedophile Skelpie Fairbairn is declared unsafe - putting Fairbairn back on Glasgow's streets and leaving Anderson under investigation. Add to this a gangster torched alive, a teenage boy tortured then dropped off a bridge and the suicide of a cop who worked an unsolved child kidnapping way back in 1996 and Anderson's got his hands full. Then one night, a young girl is tied to the river bank and left for the tide. Anderson gets there, but she dies in his arms. Working round the clock his team discover these strange crimes are linked to an elusive criminal mastermind known as The Puppeteer. But unable to find him, unable to stop the murders, Anderson is forced to follow the only lead he has - Skelpie Fairbairn . . . But which is worse - the devil you don't know, or the one you do . . .? From the author of the thrilling Dark Water comes The Blood of Crows - the fourth novel in the gripping Anderson & Costello series. 'Well-drawn characters and great sense of place set this series head and shoulders above most of the competition' The Times 'Ramsay handles her characters with aplomb, the dialogue crackles and the search for the killer has surprising twists and turns' Observer 'Brilliant in twisting the tension tauter with each page' Guardian Caro Ramsay was born in Glasgow and now lives in a village on the west coast of Scotland. This is her fourth DI Anderson and DS Costello novel, following the critically acclaimed Absolution, Singing to the Dead and Dark Water.
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Caro Ramsay was born in Glasgow and now lives in a village on the west coast of Scotland. This is her fourth DI Anderson and DS Costello novel, following the critically acclaimed Absolution, Singing to the Dead and Dark Water.
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