From the author of The Hanging Shed comes the second installment in the Douglas Brodie series. 'The new Ian Rankin' - Daily Mail

Summer in Glasgow. When the tarmac bubbles, and the tenement windows bounce back the light. When lust boils up and tempers fray.

When suddenly, it's bring out your dead...

Glasgow's melting. The temperature is rising and so is the murder rate. Douglas Brodie, ex-policeman, ex-soldier and now newest reporter on the Glasgow Gazette, has no shortage of material for his crime column.

But even Brodie balks at his latest subject - a rapist who has been tarred and feathered by a balaclava-clad group. Brodie soon discovers a link between this horrific act and a series of brutal beatings.

As violence spreads and the bodies pile up, Brodie and advocate Samantha Campbell are entangled in a web of deception and savagery. Brodie is swamped with stories for the Gazette. But how long before he and Sam become the headline?

'Ferris is a writer of real authority, immersing the reader into

his nightmare world... everything speaks of an original voice.'

INDEPENDENT

'Electrifies readers... a rising star of Scottish literature.'

SCOTSMAN