The second crime thriller in the No.1 bestselling Logan McRae series from Stuart MacBride.

She’s just the first. How many more will die?

‘Stuart MacBride is a damned fine writer’ Peter James

It’s summertime in the Granite City: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying…

It starts with Rosie Williams, a prostitute, stripped naked and beaten to death down by the docks – the heart of Aberdeen’s red light district. For DS Logan McRae it’s a bad start to another bad day.

Rosie won’t be the only one making an unscheduled trip to the morgue. Across the city six people are burning to death in a petrol-soaked squat, the doors and windows screwed shut from the outside.

And despite Logan’s best efforts, it’s not long before another prostitute turns up on the slab…