Dark Blood
Everyone deserves a second chance...
Richard Knox has served his time, so why shouldn't he be allowed to live wherever he wants? Yes, he was convicted of the brutal rape and abduction of a sixty-eight-year-old man, but he's seen the error of his ways. Found God. Wants to leave his dark past in Newcastle and make a new start.
Or so he says.
Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn't exactly thrilled to be part of the team helping Knox settle into his new Aberdeen home. He's even less thrilled to be stuck with DSI Danby from Northumbria Police - the man who put Knox behind bars for ten years - supposedly here to 'keep an eye on things'.
Only things are about to go very, very wrong.
Donald Trump's golf course is bringing a mini development boom to the Granite City, and Edinburgh gangster Malk the Knife wants a slice. Three heavies from Newcastle want a 'quiet word' with DSI Danby about a missing mob accountant. Local crime lord Wee Hamish Mowat has plans for Logan's future. And Martin Knox's dark past isn't done with him yet...
DARK BLOOD is the sixth book in the Logan McRae / Cold Granite series. The whole thing was inspired by (but not based on) the real life case of Stephen Beech, a sex offender from down south who decided he wanted to live by the sea. So he ended up in Aberdeen, where he had to be watched 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at a cost of about £200,000.00 a year.
Obviously Mr Beech wasn't all that popular with the local populace, or press, and I couldn't help thinking it was exactly the sort of reverse-sex-tourism that would make a very interesting kicking off point for a crime novel...
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