A detective looks into a skeleton in a Scottish cemetery—and, perhaps, into his own family’s past—in this “top-notch police-procedural” (Richmond Times-Dispatch).
When a woman’s bones are discovered in a grave in St. Andrews—with no coffin and no marker—DCI Andy Gilchrist is tasked with finding her murderer. But a psychic’s warnings and markings on a rusted cigarette lighter found among the rotted remains take Gilchrist on a journey into his own past—providing a link to his own brother’s death in a hit-and-run case some thirty-five years earlier . . .
Born in Glasgow, T. Frank Muir was plagued from a young age with the urge to see more of the world than the rain sodden slopes of the Campsie Fells. Thirty-plus years of living and working overseas helped him appreciate the raw beauty of his home country. Now a dual US/UK citizen, Muir makes his home in the outskirts of Glasgow, Scotland, from where he visits St. Andrews regularly to research in the town’s many pubs and restaurants.