Out in the Cold (The thrillingly authentic Scottish crime debut) - Stuart Johnstone

Intuition is everything in the police force, something that Sergeant Don Colyear knows better than most. When a superior officer''s decision not to respond to a routine disturbance has fatal consequences, Colyear finds himself sent away from Glasgow to work in a remote Highlands town.Despite not wanting to be there, a feeling shared by his commander, Colyear soon settles into life investigating petty crimes. But it isn''t long before he discovers something strange about the town. A string of teenage disappearances seems to have been ignored by the authorities. And when a groundsman from the local sporting estate is gruesomely murdered, Colyear suspects that long-held secrets could be coming to the surface. As he delves further into the town''s history, it isn''t long before his own life is at risk.