From the creator of "The Barney Thomson series" comes a darker and more savage crime novel than Douglas Lindsay's previous work. "He hangs dead on a wall, impaled by an ornamental sword through the lower chest cavity, his feet dangling three inches off the ground. The drip of blood from his mouth has long ago stopped, the pool on the floor disturbed by the scurrying feet of rats..." (Glasgow, Christmas 2001). Detective Sergeant Dallas Lumberyard lives a classic policeman's rock 'n roll life of cigarettes, alcohol, football and women, with crime-solving a clear fifth place on his list of priorities. However, this comfortable existence on the periphery of detective work is shattered when a woman is savagely murdered and police officers begin to die in her wake. Suddenly Lumberyard is drawn into an old police conspiracy, the body count is rising, and it's an exceptionally inconvenient time for him to discover that there are too many women waiting for him in too many beds and not enough hours in the day...
- ISBN10 0956146686
- ISBN13 9780956146687
- Publish Date 25 November 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 February 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Long Midnight Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 216
- Language English