Better the devil you know . . . or the one you don't?
For DI Colin Anderson, there's no such simple thing as right and wrong.
As his seemingly clear-cut conviction of paedophile Skelpie Fairbairn is declared unsafe, Anderson finds himself under investigation. Pressure on the DI mounts as an elusive criminal mastermind known as the Puppeteer seems to be the link in a series of alarming events: a gangster torched alive; a teenage boy tortured then dropped off a bridge; and the suicide of a cop working on a decades-old, unsolved child kidnapping.
When a young girl dies in Anderson's arms after being left to drown, he is at his wits' end. With Fairbairn as his only lead, is he prepared to dance with the devil to solve her murder?
- ISBN10 1838855033
- ISBN13 9781838855031
- Publish Date 22 July 2021 (first published 30 August 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Canongate Books Ltd
- Imprint Black Thorn
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 496
- Language English