Please note that this title is currently out of stock but is available for pre-order. While we don’t have an exact publishing date yet, it is expected to be available within approximately 4 to 6 weeks.
As Tess peels back layers of earth and secrecy, contradictions emerge that don’t fit the tidy explanations on offer — and a pattern appears that reaches farther than anyone expected. With every sample, every lab result and every late‑night interview, Tess narrows the field to someone for whom killing has become methodical, almost domestic.
Smart, unsentimental and richly atmospheric, this novel blends forensic rigour with a fierce sense of place and a heroine who reads evidence like scripture — a tense, page‑turning investigation to the last fragment.
KIRSTY MCKENNA lives near Dunoon in Argyll and Bute and is the creator of the Tess O’Brien crime series.
